[erlang-questions] count events within last XX minutes

[Max Bourinov]

>If you put stats into public ets, than collector will not be
>overloaded with requests.

This is interesting. I also have thoughts about avoid DOS. But I don't
understand how ETS will help here.

Here what I have. I have only one process that process clients requests. It
really doesn't make sense to have more processes because the process does
nothing but returns some pre-calculated value. If I store data in ETS my
process will have to do additional work - extracting data from ETS.

Or maybe I am missing something? Please give the right direction here. Or
maybe in my case it doesn't matter because my case is trivial?

Best regards,
Max



On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> wrote:
> > There often is a habit with quick projects to throw data in ets, since
> it is
> > easy to access the data as global data.  This helps people coming from an
> > imperative programming background.  I don't see a good reason in the
> email
> > thread that shows that ets is the best solution,
>
>
> But there is a good reason. It is performance. For example, in
> erlyvideo all major statistics data are
> collected not via gen_server:cal: you cannot ask process to tell its
> statistics, because
> it is very easy to DOS your server with such replies.
>
> If you put stats into public ets, than collector will not be
> overloaded with requests.
>
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