[erlang-questions] monitor message queue of a process

[Zoltan Lajos Kis]

Definitely not generic...
But as a quick hack you can set a trace flag on your process in order to 
receive a message whenever the process receives one:
erlang:trace(Pid, true, ['receive', {tracer, MonitorPid}]).
This way you only need to check the queue length after the first n trace 
messages, then after n-m messages, etc...

Regards,
Zoltan.



On 4/21/2010 7:26 PM, Roberto Ostinelli wrote:
> dear list,
>
> i would like to know if there's a native way to monitor and react on a
> message queue of a process, without the need to modify the process
> itself.
>
> it's quite easy to get the message queue length using
> erlang:process_info/2, however i would need this monitoring done not
> in a polling-way [which would periodically check for this
> information], but i would love to have some kind of a message when the
> queue length is modified and satisfies some requisites.
>
> i'm trying to figure out a way to provide some kind of generic
> buffering technique to solve selective receives' snowball effect that
> is being discussed so much lately.
>
> ideas welcome.
>
> r.
>
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