erl.exe dies but werl.exe does not on both Windows XP and 2008R2 with R14B01

[Dave Cottlehuber]

On 4 March 2011 23:53, Dave Cottlehuber <dave@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> There are 2 issues I've identified - VM crash & VM hang. Both occur
> within a CouchDB build of erlang, on various windows variants. This
> email covers the crash only. It is easy to reproduce:
>
> Install CouchDB 1.0.1 or a more recent build from
> https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads and curl.exe from
> http://haxx.se/
> open command prompt and change to couchdb/bin folder.
> set erl=erl
> couchdb.bat
>
> & run this script until erlang dies (watch the erl console scroll
> by!). On my 2 testbeds this takes less than a minute to occur - just
> 25 curls.

Sorry; key point is that running with werl.exe instead will run
successfully for days.
More info on the original issue is available at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-963.

Thanks again.
Dave