[erlang-questions] Process Monitoring

[Chandru]

On 27 May 2010 14:48, Evans, Matthew <mevans@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I asked this question a while ago, but no takers.
>
> I wish to monitor multiple processes on a remote card. Would the best
> approach be to do erlang:monitor/2, or do erlang:monitor_node/2 and write a
> simple (local) mechanism to alert interested parties locally?
>
> I guess the bigger question is: Is there any overhead of doing remote
> erlang:monitor/2 calls? Since gen_server uses it my guess is no.
>
>
I would use erlang:monitor/2 if only to save myself the effort of then
implementing a local mechanism, however simple.

cheers
Chandru