That’s typically how it works for a well-behaved Erlang application, yes. CouchDB does work this way; I’m not 100% certain about RabbitMQ but it probably does as well. Cheers,
Adam > On Jul 15, 2021, at 5:11 AM, Andrea Brancatelli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I have a general Erlang question but I think you could help me with > that... > > I need to run CouchDB and RabbitMQ on the same set of (three) nodes, all > clustered together. > > What happens with epmd? Erlang's documentation > (https://erlang.org/doc/man/epmd.html) is pretty vague: "The daemon is > started automatically by command erl(1) [1] if the node is to be > distributed and no running instance is present."... > > So what happens? The first one between Couch and Rabbit who starts opens > epmd and the second one just hooks to the already running copy? > > Thanks. > > -- > > Andrea Brancatelli > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html
