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| -rw-r--r-- | src/cowboy_listener.erl | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/cowboy_listener.erl b/src/cowboy_listener.erl index 8b656ba..c19d079 100644 --- a/src/cowboy_listener.erl +++ b/src/cowboy_listener.erl @@ -30,9 +30,15 @@ %% API. %% @private +%% +%% We set the process priority to high because cowboy_listener is the central +%% gen_server in Cowboy and is used to manage all the incoming connections. +%% Setting the process priority to high ensures the connection-related code +%% will always be executed when a connection needs it, allowing Cowboy to +%% scale far beyond what it would with a normal priority. -spec start_link() -> {ok, pid()}. start_link() -> - gen_server:start_link(?MODULE, [], []). + gen_server:start_link(?MODULE, [], [{spawn_opt, [{priority, high}]}]). %% @private -spec stop(pid()) -> stopped. |