spawning process on erlang cluster

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If I spawn a new process on a busy node in an erlang cluster and other nodes are idle will the process automatically be spawned on one of the free nodes?

Update: I found another question similar to this one too:

Using Erlang, how should I distribute load amongst a cluster?

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interesting info: erlang.org/doc/man/overload.html ... thanks to "whoppix" on #erlang freenode irc. - jldupont
So does scaling have to be performed manually then, by checking if a node is overloaded and then sending the call to another node? - yazz.com
You can distribute the load information of your nodes at certain intervals, and always select the one having the least load for a new process. This will only work though if the distribution interval is fairly shorter than the processes' lifetime. - Zed

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No, it will not. Spawning is "not declarative".