[erlang-questions] count events within last XX minutes

[Max Bourinov]

Hi Max,

Thank you for you comments and explanation.

Did you saw that I need only 120 minutes? So it will be a list with 121
element at most. In this case memory won't grow at all and size of the
state will be the same.

I agree about coping but I don't understand why state will grow. Could you
please explain it?

Best regards,
Max




On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> 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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