Right, but in the erlang VM (and thus Elixir), processes are not OS processes, they are very very small processes internal to the VM. It's not uncommon to have

Right, but in the erlang VM (and thus Elixir), processes are not OS processes, they are very very small processes internal to the VM. It's not uncommon to have multiple processes get spawned for each request that comes into a server and to end up having tens or hundreds of thousands of processes on a single VM at any given point. Edit: Geez, I even did a refresh check before clicking submit. I'm having the worst luck with that lately.