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by paradox460 445 days ago
When coming from telephony and high availability, you don't put neighbors in the same hardware. This is BEAMs way of overcoming shortcomings in the CPU and OS schedulers. And you can turn it off with a simple configuration
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> When coming from telephony and high availability [world]

That's a good point, its pretty easy to forget BEAM's heritage from the telecom world. The defaults on the VM are for that use-case, I'm so used to thinking of everything from a web perspective that I didn't even consider this, despite knowing of its history.