DOC: Introduce flow-control concepts and approaches for Actors
Flow control comes up every now and then on the mailing list, and it is an important topic. Things to be covered:
- What flow control is?
- When does it matter?
- Why does it matter?
- What is buffering, why does it matter?
- Dropping policies
- Backpressure
- Source rate control (tokens, throttling, etc.)
- Sink based rate control (pulling, etc.)
also document sending to self to measure inbox size
- What flow control is?
- When does it matter?
- Why does it matter?
- What is buffering, why does it matter?
- Dropping policies
- Backpressure
- Source rate control (tokens, throttling, etc.)
- Sink based rate control (pulling, etc.)
also document sending to self to measure inbox size
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on 2013-02-22 03:52 *
By Patrik Nordwall
Very good that you created this ticket!
on 2013-03-06 21:02 *
By viktorklang
Summary changed from DOC: Introduce flow-control concepts and approaches to DOC: Introduce flow-control concepts and approaches for Actors