<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>3. Is spawning a lot of send_after's or timers a dangerous idea? In case of using timer module, we'll just lose some started timers due to port restart. But something tells me that crash of erlang internal timers is a somewhat more dangerous thing that might even crash the VM.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div>How much is a lot of send_afters? My server runs a lot of timers, but very rarely in more than one per process. But there can easily be thousands of timers running in different processes.</div>
I would advise against using timer module. Using the timer module in a few places turned out to be a big mistake. It sometimes just stops working completely. It may be a mistake on my part, but erlang:send_after generally does everything you need and is completely reliable.<div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sergej </div></div>