Erlang shell crash

[Surindar Sivanesan]

Yes, the server side shell has collapsed.
I will analyse all of your points.
Thank you very much for your reply.
-- 
with regards,
S.Surindar

On 09 Jun 2006 10:46:59 +0200, Raimo Niskanen <raimo@REDACTED>
wrote:
>
> In erts-5.4.8 (R10B-6) there was a fix for larger heap sizes:
>
>    OTP-5596  In the hipe application, there's a new experimental register
>              allocator (optimistic coalescing), and the linear scan
>              register allocator is now also available on ppc. Plus lots of
>              cleanups.
>
>              Minor hybrid heap corrections.
>
>              The maximum size of a heap used to be articially limited so
>              that the size of a heap would fit in 28 bits; that limitation
>              could cause the emulator to terminate in a garbage collection
>              even if there still was available memory. Now the largest
>              heap size for a 32 bit CPU is 1,699,221,830 bytes. (Thanks to
>              Jesper Wilhelmsson.)
>
>              Also removed the undocumented +H emulator option.
>
> But do you need larger heap sizes or fixing your application?
>
> There is a gotcha concerning the shell history. The shell
> keeps a history of commands and results, and since
> the shell has references to this data, it is not
> garbage collected. Might this be a problem?
>
> Or is it simply so that you have a non-tail recurisive loop
> that is eating your memory?
>
> You can use top (the unix command) to see if the server
> side emulator grows gradually, or explodes suddenly,
> which size it starts on and so on, and this may give
> you some clue.
>
> surindar.shanthi@REDACTED (Surindar Sivanesan) writes:
>
> > I'm using Eralng emulator version is  5.4.3.
> > The type of application is load testing with simulator in one PC ( which
> has
> > multiple thread. At that monent we have 200 threads) which sends
> requests to
> > the server in another PC.
> > The Shell running as server is collapsed.
>
> Do you mean that the server side shell process is the one that
> memory exploded and caused the emulator to crash?
>
> >
> > -with regards,
> >  S.Surindar
> >
> >
> > On 09 Jun 2006 09:04:31 +0200, Raimo Niskanen <raimo@REDACTED>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Well first the standard questions:
> > > * What is the Erlang/OTP release, or emulator version
> > > erlang:system_info(system_version)?
> > > * What is the application, or what kind of application is it?
> > >
> > > When the emultor starts it pre-calculates the heap sizes
> > > to use and puts them in an array. The calculated heap sizes
> > > are up to ridiculouosly large sizes, so that if you would
> > > need such large heaps you most probably have other problems.
> > >
> > > You most probably have other problems.
> > >
> > > Your emulator has allocated 578 Mbytes of memory and had
> > > a gigantic process heap for one process. That process
> > > must have eaten all memory. The question is if the
> > > emulator is leaking memory or if your application
> > > allocates memory that can not be reclaimed in a
> > > garbage collection?
> > >
> > > So, more info is needed.
> > >
> > > And, there has been releases with a wee bit to small
> > > pre-calculated heap sizes.
> > >
> > > Locate the culprit process in the crash dump viewer and
> > > try to find out what it is doing. Perhaps look at the
> > > call stack. That may give something.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > surindar.shanthi@REDACTED (Surindar Sivanesan) writes:
> > >
> > > > Dear all,
> > > > I'm running an Erlang application.
> > > > After 12 hours, the erlang shell crashes with *Abnormal
> termination.*
> > > > Then i have viewed the Erlang dump in the *Crash dump viewer*.
> > > > The crash dump viewer has the following information.
> > > >
> > > > Slogan*:  no next heap size found: 148185174, offset 0.*
> > > > Memory allocated: 606002043 bytes.
> > > > Atoms : 7158.
> > > > Processes : 703
> > > > ETS tables : 45
> > > > Funs : 442
> > > >
> > > > Please give me the reason for this crash.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > with regards,
> > > > S.Surindar
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > with regards,
> > S.Surindar
>
> --
>
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
>
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