timer

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi,

Because Erlang is a soft real-time system, it is not possible to guarantee
that the scheduler will give back control to the process at the EXACT
moment it is supposed to. In case of timer, what Erlang assures is that the
timeout duration will be at-least the requested time (i.e., it will not be
triggered earlier than that).

Regards,
Vimal

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 1:38 AM Maximilian Hill <max@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just took a look at the documentation of the module timer.
> It says "The time-outs are not exact, but are at least as long as
> requested."
>
> Can someone tell me, how exact are the timer functions?
> How much can they be?
>
> --
> Regards
>
> max
>
>
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