Erlang/Windows stabilty - a newbie question.

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Ulf Wiger wrote:
> Still, if you'd throw in a call to
> erlang:garbage_collect() every once in a while, your system will
> probably stay up.
>
> In a live system, you'd want to consider spawning a process
> to do the work and then die.
>
> Regards,
> Ulf W
> --Ulf Wiger
>
It works! :)  Thanks Ulf for this solution and the background 
information about how Erlang is doing its GCing. 

As to spawning... I did try that when I was originally looking for a fix 
to the problem... however that seemed to take the average time for each 
tokenising function pass from approx. 10secs... to approx. 60-120+ 
secs... so I guessed this was a bad idea!

I'll retry the spawning approach in the light of everything suggested.

Anyway, thanks again... and also to Michael for his feedback too,

Kyle.