[erlang-questions] preserving state through a gen_server restart

[Joseph Wayne Norton]

Ivan -

Ivan -

Hi.  I don't fully understand the needs of your application so please keep that in mind.

A few suggestions/comments:

 - gproc is built using "Plain Old OTP".  gproc uses an ets table and a gen_server process to store and to manage it's state.

 - If you decide not to use gproc, I'd recommend modifying your "my_lambs" process to use ets to store and to manage your state.  I'd recommend to create a process different than your "my_lambs" process to be the owner of this ets table.

 - Check this module (https://github.com/norton/gen-ets/blob/dev/src/gen_ets_reg.erl) for one recipe on using ets for such purposes.  This module implements a *very* simple process registry.

Cheers,

Joe N.

On Oct 20, 2012, at 6:02 AM, Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@REDACTED> wrote:

> Thanks. gproc does look very useful and I'll read the tutorials. In the meantime, how is this kind of thing done with Plain Old OTP?
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> Best wishes
> 
> Ivan
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> Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen, ...
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> On 19 Oct 2012, at 16:09, Joseph Wayne Norton <norton@REDACTED> wrote:
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>> gproc is handy way to manage processes by name.
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>> On 2012/10/20, at 0:03, Ivan Uemlianin <ivan@REDACTED> wrote:
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>>> Or is there another way of doing this?