> Erlang processes are threads as seen by the OS Not true, Erlang processes are userspace threads, not kernel threads. It's an M:N model -- you can run thousan

> Erlang processes are threads as seen by the OS Not true, Erlang processes are userspace threads, not kernel threads. It's an M:N model -- you can run thousands of Erlang processes on a single OS thread. See: http://erlang.org/euc/08/euc_smp.pdf http://erlang.org/euc/08/euc_smp.pdf and note that each "scheduler" runs on a single OS thread, whereas many processes can run on each scheduler.