[erlang-bugs] crash dump on large ssh:connection_send()

[Daniel Goertzen]

When I try to send a large binary (13 MB) through an SSH channel using
"ssh:connection_send()", my VM freezes with a CPU pinned and I am forced to
kill it.  One time it managed to get this message out:

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 912262800 bytes of memory (of type "heap").


Abnormal termination




Sending the binary in smaller chunks (4kB) also fails.  I get to send about
50 such chunks before I get {error, channel_closed}, but a few moments
later the VM freezes with pinned CPU.  I am continuing to investigate, but
would happily take hints if anyone can provide them.


I am running R15B01 on Windows.


My use case is to push a firmware image from my Erlang app to a network
appliance running OpenSSH.  Similar to...

cat firmware.bin | ssh someuser@REDACTED  'cat >/temp/firmware.bin'


Thanks,
Dan.
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