[erlang-questions] How to wake up hibernated process without sending message from external process

[Ahmed Omar]

Of course this is not periodical itself, but you can make it periodical by
calling it every time before you hibernate

Another way would be to use time:send_interval , but it's not a scalable
way
http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.html#id52228

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Ahmed Omar <spawn.think@REDACTED> wrote:

> You could use
> erlang:send_after(Time, Dest, Msg), e.g :  erlang:send_after(1000, self(),
> wakeup).
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#send_after-3
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Zvi <zvi.avraham@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have many hibernated erlang processes, which need to be periodically
>> waken up.
>> One way to do this, is to send wakeup messages from external process.
>> Is there a scalable way for the hibernated process to send messages to
>> itself via some kind of periodic timer?
>>
>> Also note, that "after" doesn't work for hibernated processes. In
>> order to "after" clause to work, the process need to be
>> "unhibernated".
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zvi
>>
>> ================================
>> -module(mymodule).
>> -export([start/0, loop/1]).
>>
>> start() ->
>>    proc_lib:hibernate(?MODULE, loop, [0]);
>>
>> loop(State) ->
>>    receive
>>        {do_something, Msg} ->
>>              State2 = do_something(State, Msg),
>>              proc_lib:hibernate(?MODULE, loop, [State2]);
>>        wakeup ->
>>              loop(State)
>>    after Timeout ->
>>              do_cleanup()
>>    end.
>>
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