How to 'bypass' the receive timer

[Ulf Wiger]

Oh, but please use erlang:start_timer(Time, self(), Msg) instead.

The timer module is not especially efficient.

/Uffe


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Faustin Ngokse wrote:

>Hi Lennart,
>
>Thanx for your hint; that sounds promising.
>I'll go for that and I think all will work fine.
>thanks again;
>
>CU
>
>///Faustin
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 15:35:09 +0100
>> From: Lennart Öhman <lennart.ohman@REDACTED>
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>> Hi Faustin,
>>
>> it sounds to me that what you want to do is to start a set a timer
>> in the timer process for each handled message which will be followed by
>> a second message. Look in stdlib for timer.
>> timer:send_after(Time,MessageIWillGetBack) for instance. If you get the
>> expected message you either cancel the time-out or program in a way that
>> you can ignore it when it eventually arrives.
>>
>> I guess the reason for going to a special receive statment (having the
>> time-out) is that you need to handled the second message in a context
>> dictated by the previous.
>>
>> You will achieve this by letting the tail-recursive function having the
>> main receive statment have an argument where such relevant parameters
>> for that context can be kept.
>>
>> /Lennart
>>
>>
>> Faustin Ngokse wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello erlang friends,
>> >
>> > This is my first contribution on this mailing list, I guess I am at the
>right
>> > place.
>> > I have an erlang process working as server and receiving a lot of messages.
>> > Some messages trigger further "receive" with a timer to prevent the process
>from
>> > waiting undefinetely.
>> > It often happens that the messages destinated to the 'external' receive
>can't be
>> > delivered because the timer for the 'internal' receiver is not yet over.
>> > This make my server process very very slow.
>> > Is there a possibility to influence the message so that messages for the
>> > 'external' receive can be delivered while the 'internal' receive is still
>> > waiting?
>> > Do anybody have another idea how to solve this problem?
>> >
>> > Thanx in advance
>> >
>> > Faustin
>>
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