[erlang-questions] Guidance to a cache mechanism

[Rapsey]

Do not use timer module. Use erlang:send_after/3
In my experience the timer module is unreliable and send_after will always
work.


Sergej

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Maruthavanan Subbarayan <
maruthavanan_s@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to develop a caching queue, which also should should after a expiry
> time.
>
> I may have around 500+ messages which may come in a second. Each message
> might contain 100-200 bytes.
>
> So I have designed the system like below.
>
> 1. Queue would be a gen server.
> 2. All messages which would come on same second would be stored in state
> of the gen_server like a record {datetime(),[<list of messages>]}
> 3. When the time differs, I would insert the above record to ets table and
> update the state of gen_server.
> 4. There would be a timer running timer:send_interval which would message
> timeout the gen_server for every second, when this message is received,
> then gen_server would delete the ets table according to expiry configured.
>
> I was looking on some guidance to check if the above is fine and with with
> stand the performance. I am foreseeing maximum expiry would be around 60
> minutes.
>
> Thanks,
> Marutha
>
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