[erlang-questions] Restricting number of executions per second

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

One way to do it could be to add the frequency of calls to the server
state. Too high frequency => do not call the function.


bengt
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 17:41 +0400, Ahmed Ali wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I want to run a function in not more than a specific numbers of times
> per second (e.g. 3 times per second). The function is part of a
> gen_server process (i.e. called using gen_server:call/2). What's the
> best way to do this?
> 
> The funny thing is that the first idea I got for a solution is locking
> n semaphores to serialize the execution. I guess I'm still locked in
> the mainstream paradigm :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ahmed
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