[erlang-questions] count events within last XX minutes

[Max Lapshin]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Max Bourinov <bourinov@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Thank you guys for all your replies.
>
> I think I will go with my own implementation. The only thing I cannot
> understand, why you suggest using ETS for this?

because ets have update_counter API


> Why keeping data in the state is not ok?

because you will have giant state with all problems

>  I think on heavy load the state approach will perform
> better than ETS. Moreover, I think ETS is overkill for this task.

"overkill" here is an emotion without any exact results.
Keeping this info in state will lead to copy of growing amount of memory.


> p.s. In my case XX minutes wont exceed 120.
>
> Best regards,
> Max
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Mike Oxford <moxford@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> If you care about, as you say, "certain minute" you can use Ulf's gproc.
>> If you want "last minute" then the ETS solution below will work well, with
>> the modification on the Counter to use a ms/us timer like erlang:now().
>>
>> -mox
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Anders Nygren <anders.nygren@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Use an ETS table with {Counter,{YYYY,MM,DD,HH,MM}} as key, and
>>> ets:update_counter/2,3.
>>> update_counter returns the new counter value, so if it is 1, (or the
>>> increment used) You know that a new minute has been entered so You can
>>> delete the oldest.
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Max Bourinov <bourinov@REDACTED> wrote:
>>> > Dear Erlangers,
>>> >
>>> > Does anybody know best memory efficient way to count events within last
>>> > XX
>>> > minutes?
>>> >
>>> > So far I have the following idea: For each counter I have a process.
>>> > The
>>> > counter process has a list of XX items. Each item represents a certain
>>> > minute, so I always know where is my current counter. There is also
>>> > must be
>>> > a mechanism to remove last item from the list and add a new one.
>>> > Summing
>>> > values from all items is a number of events within last XX minutes.
>>> > This is
>>> > it.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe there is a ready lib that does the same in a better way?
>>> >
>>> > Any suggestions are welcome!
>>> >
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > Max
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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