[erlang-questions] bug in timer module in R14B02?

[Ryan Huffman]

I ran into a lot of problems with the timer module on R14B02 and eventually
switched to using erlang:send_after.  This particular section in the erlang
doc also convinced me to switch over to erlang:send_after and maintain my
own timer:
http://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/commoncaveats.html#id58959

I was running on a 64-bit system (CentOS 5.5), so, as Dale mentioned, the
problem may be fixed.

Ryan

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Dale Harvey <dale@REDACTED> wrote:

> I believe there was an integer overflow bug on 64 bit systems that affect
> ordered ets tables (and therefore caused timers not to trigger) in R14B02
>
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-bugs/2011-April/002294.html
>
> That may be your problem?
>
>
> On 19 June 2011 03:43, Zsolt Keszthelyi <zsolt.erl@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I ran into something in R14B02.
>> It looks like if I start a timer with a long interval then all previously
>> started timers stop.
>> The timer server is still running and the timers are in the ETS table.
>> No error returned. Nothing crashes.
>> This was working on R13B03 and is not working on R14B02
>> The long interval is exactly 2^31/1000 ms.
>> Is it a bug or an intentional change?
>> Maybe the timer module was never meant to be used with long intervals but
>> shouldn't it give at least an error msg.?
>>
>> Code:
>>
>> %% works on R13B03
>> %% doesn't work on R14B02
>>
>> -module(timerbug).
>>
>> -compile(export_all).
>>
>> start()->
>>    timer:apply_interval(1000, io, format, ["Hello!\n"]),
>>    timer:sleep(5000),
>>    timer:apply_interval(40*60***1000, io, format, ["No more hello.\n"]).
>>
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