[akka-user] Re: Number of actors

2015-04-15 Thread Anil M
Thanks for you reply. I will look into the aggregator pattern. On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 1:45:33 AM UTC-4, Adam wrote: Hi, First of all, actors are very lightweight and you can have many of them, while an ActorSystem is heavyweight and you should not have many of that (typically

[akka-user] Number of actors

2015-04-13 Thread Anil M
Hi, I am new to Akka and had some fundamental questions regarding the effective configuration of Akka in a production environment. 1. In general how many actors are advisable per set of threads for x cores ? E.g., for 8 cores, 24 threads and maybe 50 actors is a reasonable number. I know