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

Vincent de Phily vincent.dephily@REDACTED
Tue Jun 21 18:41:57 CEST 2011


On Tuesday 21 June 2011 10:00:22 Fernando Brujo Benavides wrote:
> +1. We have the same issues here, and also moved to erlang:send_after.
> We still use timer:send_interval but just for small intervals.

FWIW, we moved to processes that do "receive ... after" in a loop, because we 
need to "update the timers" (aka "dont do this now, do it a little later 
instead") very frequently. We just send the new deadline to that process 
whenever the timer is to be updated.
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