[erlang-bugs] R13B-0, R12B-5 bug in erlang:memory/1

[Rickard Green]

 > It appears that erlang:memory(processes_used) incorrectly return 0
 > instead of the value it returns when included in the erlang:memory()
 > result.
 >
 > This behaviour occurs in R13B:
 >
 >> {erlang:memory(), erlang:memory(processes_used), 
erlang:memory(processes), erlang:system_info(version)}.
 > {[{total,4354480},
 >   {processes,1104752},
 >   {processes_used,1100128},
 >   {system,3249728},
 >   {atom,308005},
 >   {atom_used,281638},
 >   {binary,18800},
 >   {code,2010109},
 >   {ets,136224}],
 >  0, % <--- incorrect
 >  1104752, % <--- correct
 >  "5.7.1"}
 >
 > This behaviour also happens in R12B-5 as far as I can tell.
 >
 > As near as I can tell the problem is here,
 > 
http://github.com/mfoemmel/erlang-otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c#L1768
 > -- want.processes is not set and/or want.processes_used is not tested.
 >
 > Cheers,
 > --
 > Geoff Cant

Thanks for the bug report. It will be fixed in R13B01.

Regards,
Rickard
-- 
Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.