Hello,

We have an Akka actor system running where some actors can process a short 
message (<10 secs) and some actors could take up to 20 minutes. At times, 
users might decide to cancel the process.

We originally implement calling Stop on the actor, but it caused too much 
lag for user when long message are being processed. Afterwards we modified 
the actor so that it will perform periodic checks for a cancel flag. The 
second implementation makes the cancellation to be more responsive, but 
does not scale well as the number of actors increased.

What is the pattern or best practice in Akka for this case? Is there a way 
to broadcast an interrupt message to actors for cancelation?

Thanks,
Suriyanto

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