You can use receive timeout (see actor section in documentation) and then stop it after inactivity. If you use Cluster Sharding you should combine that with the Passivate message as mentioned by Paul (see cluster sharding section in documentation). /Patrik tis 9 feb. 2016 kl. 16:01 skrev Paul Cleary <pclear...@gmail.com>:
> You can use Passivate, which will persist I believe after some period of > unuse > > > On Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 9:57:05 AM UTC-5, Mahmoud Atef wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to AKKA world and I'm working on implementing EventSourcing using >> the PersistentActors, but I got confused about the life-cycle of those >> actors. As far as I understand, the default behavior of persistent actors >> is to stay in the memory until being shutdown, which may overwhelm the >> memory with tons of actors (actor per entity) living there. >> >> I assume that there should be one of two workarounds: >> 1. Define a pool of actors and shift the context of the actors according >> to the demand. >> 2. Shutdown each actor after persisting its events. >> >> I cant get any article in that context, so what is the best practice in >> this case? >> > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.