#3083
  • Created on
    2013-02-21 12:13
  • Reported by
    drewhk
  • Status
    New
  • Priority
    Normal (3)
  • Assigned to
    -
  • Milestone
    Rollins
  • Plan Level
    Subtask
  • Due Date
    -

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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
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  on 2013-02-21 13:52 *
By Patrik Nordwall
Very good that you created this ticket!
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  on 2013-03-06 07:02 *
By viktorklang
Summary changed from DOC: Introduce flow-control concepts and approaches to DOC: Introduce flow-control concepts and approaches for Actors
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  on 2013-04-28 14:29 *
By rkuhn
Description changed from Flow control comes up every... to Flow control comes up every...
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  on 2013-08-05 02:06 *
By rkuhn
Milestone changed from Coltrane to Rollins
moving remainder of Coltrane to Rollins
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  on 2013-11-05 03:42 *
By rkuhn
Milestone set to Rollins
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  on 2013-11-05 08:38 *
By viktorklang
Milestone changed from Rollins to Current
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  on 2013-11-05 08:51 *
By rkuhn
Milestone changed from Current to Rollins