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authorRickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>2023-02-10 17:35:42 +0100
committerRickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>2023-02-10 17:35:42 +0100
commit0e6258394e1b21dba9879775267195f975d36185 (patch)
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parentd227e6bbb43a56bf93f2998542bfda6229471650 (diff)
downloaderlang-0e6258394e1b21dba9879775267195f975d36185.tar.gz
Add info about async_dist in reference manual
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-rw-r--r--system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml b/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
index 2243041d0f..78f356e93a 100644
--- a/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
+++ b/system/doc/reference_manual/processes.xml
@@ -700,7 +700,12 @@ spawn(Module, Name, Args) -> pid()
<seecom marker="erts:erl#+zdbbl"><c>+zdbbl</c></seecom>. Note
that if you do raise the limit like this, you need to take care
of flow control yourself to ensure that you do not get into a
- situation with excessive memory usage.
+ situation with excessive memory usage. As of OTP @OTP-18454@ it is
+ also possible to enable <i>fully asynchronous distributed
+ signaling</i> on a per process level using
+ <seeerl marker="erts:erlang#process_flag_async_dist">
+ <c>process_flag(async_dist, Bool)</c></seeerl>. Also in this case
+ you need to take care of flow control yourself.
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