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Re:Joyent responds to Yahoo's issues with V8 being used unde... by jchrisa on Sunday February 06, 2011 @12:51PM (#2186029)
The issue is that a single V8 thread in Node.js could be handling the event loop for thousands of clients. A process crash here could cause a mini thundering-herd when all the users attempt to reconnect at the same time.

So his question is not baseless - the solution is to have a VM that rarely crashes.

n.b. Erlang also hard-crashes when it can't allocate memory. This hasn't hurt its reputation for reliability.

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Re:Joyent responds to Yahoo's issues with V8 being used unde... by mraleph on Sunday February 06, 2011 @04:19PM (#2186475)
A process crash will cause the same problem for thread-per-connection server. There is essentially no difference in stability between thread-per-connection and event-loop based servers.
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Re:Joyent responds to Yahoo's issues with V8 being used unde... by jasonhoffman on Sunday February 06, 2011 @01:12PM (#2186073)
Yes, Bruno's fundamental point is that "desktop" language VMs will just end a process when there's memory allocation errors. So basically there has to be real means to instrument and error handling has to be robust, he's correct in this assertion.
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