I’m currently playing around with GenServers and for a totally unrealistic, but still interesting problem, I wondered whether there is a faster way of spawing 40.000+ processes than this: pids = for id <- 1..40_000 do {:ok, pid} = GenServer.start_link(MyGenServerModule, id: id) pid end Since t…

[image] PJUllrich: since the Cell wasn’t doing much in its init/2 anyway, but only sent a message back to the LiveView. Well, there’s your bottleneck. The LiveView has to handle 50K messages.

How to spawn many, many processes really fast?

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gregvaughn September 5, 2021, 6:26pm 16

Well, there’s your bottleneck. The LiveView has to handle 50K messages.

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