>> "Scheduling is pre-emptive. Regardless of priority, a process is pre-empted when it has consumed more than a certain number of reductions since the last time

>> "Scheduling is pre-emptive. Regardless of priority, a process is pre-empted when it has consumed more than a certain number of reductions since the last time it was selected for execution." > From the Erlang docs on process priority. Well, apparently you're right. I must take back what I said about Erlang scheduler.