[erlang-questions] Behaviour of queue

[Jachym Holecek]

# Fredrik Andersson 2010-09-09:
> I have a question concerning the behaviour of the erlang queue module.
> Does it store everything in memory or will it fallback to storing
> things on disk if memory is running short? If it does not I need to
> implement a layer on top of queue that will fallback to store things
> on disk if needed.

It's implemented as a pair of lists, that is all data lives on heap
of given process. Other option to implement a queue is to use ETS
table, but that's in-memory too so not sure it helps. You could go
with DETS table too, but I don't have first-hand experience with it.

Regards,
	-- Jachym