Hi Roger,

there is no way on the JVM to gracefully kill a thread.

Cheers,
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Roger Alsing <[email protected]> wrote:

> If an actor for some reason goes into spin and never returns.
> What do Akka do ?
> I might have missed it but I didn't see any timeout handling for the
> actual receive method.
> Is this dealt with by messages from parents/other actors? that can from
> time to time poll to see if the ref is still alive?
> Do you lose a thread if the running actor never returns?
>
> Any pointers are welcome, just so I know where to look :-)
>
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