[erlang-questions] prim_inet:send/2

[Raimo Niskanen]

It does not seem likely you have "a process called prim_inet:send/2".

It is also not likely it was spawned as prim_inet:send/2.

The most likely option is that you have a process stuck in
prim_inet:send/2 where it has given a command to the inet driver
and is waiting for the response.

So, is this process the only one sending replies to your clients?
And why does it get so many messages from other Erlang processes,
and is there no flow control on those messages.

The normal way to design a server handling many clients is to
have one listening process and when accepting connections
branch them off to separate processes for each TPC connection.
Then the clients can be handled in parallel within the server.

Try such a design and see if it helps.



On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:17:39PM +0530, Surindar Sivanesan wrote:
> Dear all,
> We have developed a server using erlang in Windows server 2003. As many as
> 200 client would be simultaneously connected to this server through TCP/IP
> connection. When I view the process manager table in the server, an
> internal process called prim_inet:send/2 is always having around 400
> messages in queue. Why this process is always having messages in queue?
> Whether it will affect the performance of the system in any way? If so, is
> there any way to sort out the problem?
> Please give your inputs...!
> -- 
> with regards,
> S.Surindar

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