So I'm using Akka Actors to create an indexing queue that manages a pool of
indexing tasks in my Java application. My preStart method contains this
code to initialize the child actors that perform indexing.
for (int x = 0; x < NUM_TASKS; x++){
ActorRef task = Akka.system().actorOf(Props.create(IndexingTask.class),
"Task" + x);
availableTasks.add(task);
}
There was a bug or problem that caused my indexingQueue to restart. When it
tried to restart, I got the following error from the above code:
akka.actor.InvalidActorNameException: actor name [Task0] is not unique!
So I went and read the docs and I found this
> Termination of an actor proceeds in two steps: first the actor suspends
> its mailbox processing and sends a stop command to all its children, then
> it keeps processing the internal termination notifications from its
> children *until the last one is gone, finally terminating itself*
Emphasis mine. Just wondering if this is wrong or am I completely
misunderstanding what the naming of an actor represents? The naming is
unimportant, I can increment a static long because I never need to
reference these actors by name. My main concern is that there are orphan
actors hanging around in my application.
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