[erlang-questions] signal arrival time

[Ulf Wiger]

Another way to do it is to use DTrace (not yet officially supported)

http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2011/speakers/ScottLystigFritchie

BR,
Ulf W

On 2 May 2012, at 11:40, Joe Armstrong wrote:

> Yes - read the manual pages for the BIF erlang:trace.  You basically
> set up a trace process
> that watches the process you are interested in, then you ask the
> system to send you timestamp
> information for each message that is received.
> 
> This is described at http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#trace-3
> 
> Alternatively you could you fold something like this into your code:
> 
> 
>      loop() ->
>            receive
>                 {ts, Time, Pattern1} ->
>                        ...
>                 {ts, Time, Pattern2} ->
>                        ...
>                 Any ->
>                        self() ! {ts, erlang:now(), Any},
>                        loop()
>             end.
> 
> /Joe
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:24 AM, József Bérces
> <jozsef.berces@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Is there a way to tell the time when a signal arrived to the process
>> mailbox?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jozsef
>> 
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