<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I have posted this question to stackoverflow (<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18895614/terminate-process-if-it-is-slow-at-receiving-messages">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18895614/terminate-process-if-it-is-slow-at-receiving-messages</a>) and received one helpful response, but I am still not clear about the right way to do it.</div>
<div><br></div><div> I also have seen this thread: <a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-June/059335.html">http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-June/059335.html</a>, which is somewhat similar but it still did not hep me.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would appreciate more help. Here is the question:</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><div>I have a data source process that sends messages to worker processes. To keep memory consumption under control, I need to terminate the workers that are slow retrieving their messages from their mailboxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am new to Erlang, I would appreciate any pointers. If this is difficult to accomplish with Erlang messages, maybe I can use sockets? If so, are there examples?</div><div><br></div><div>EDIT:</div><div>
<br></div><div>I have a registered process that reads from the web and generates a lot of data. It sends these data to all the "subscribed" processes using Erlang messages. For each particular piece of data, it sends the same message to all subscribers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I also have a web server that streams the data that the registered process reads. So, when a http client connects, the web server creates a process and this process subscribes to the registered process and starts receiving its messages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The registered process uses monitors to monitor subscribers. The subscribers are controlled by the web server, and when a connection is closed, the process that were serving this connection, dies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is no acknowledgement, that is, subscribers do not respond when a message is sent to them. Although I can program them this way, but I think it is too much traffic.</div><div><br></div><div>Basically I want to close the connection if a http client is too slow.</div>
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