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

[Daniel Goertzen]

Sigh.  Never mind.  I was tracing a function that passes the 13 MB binary
and attempting to pretty print that made the VM freeze.

Sorry for the distraction,
Dan.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Goertzen
<daniel.goertzen@REDACTED>wrote:

> 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:
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> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
> eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 912262800 bytes of memory (of type "heap").
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> Abnormal termination
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> 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.
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> I am running R15B01 on Windows.
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> My use case is to push a firmware image from my Erlang app to a network
> appliance running OpenSSH.  Similar to...
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> cat firmware.bin | ssh someuser@REDACTED  'cat >/temp/firmware.bin'
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> Thanks,
> Dan.
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