[erlang-questions] Erlang shell crashes

[Surindar Sivanesan]

Also, I need to know about the term *Reductions. *
What does it mean?
Is it should be minimum or maximum for better performance? (How is it
measured?)


On 10/26/06, Surindar Sivanesan <surindar.shanthi@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> From the crash dump viewer, I have noticed that the stack+heap size and
> message queue lenght are high for some processes.
>
>   Pid <http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=pid> Name/Spawned
> as<http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=name_func>
> State<http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=state>
> Reductions<http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=reds>
> Stack+heap<http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=mem>
> *MsgQ Length<http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/sort_procs?sort=msg_q_len>
> *  <0.128.0><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/proc_details?pid=%3C0.128.0%3E>
> controling_process Waiting 162446666 10946 380465 <0.60.0><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/proc_details?pid=%3C0.60.0%3E>
> logwriter Garbing (limited info) 12549099 93416095 272345
>
> Here, the *logwriter* uses ODBC connectivity and write the log to MS SQL
> DB.
> All the other process in this application uses *logwriter *process to
> write log.
>
>  On 10/26/06, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems your application has a process that is growing continously,
> > and after 15 hours its attemt to allocate a 356 MByte heap failed
> > due to insufficient memory.
> >
> > Your total allocated memory is 1060 MByte of which roughly 356 MByte
> > should be the old heap of the offendng process, leaving 704 MByte
> > for the rest of the beam emulator. That is also a large emulator.
> > Is your application deliberately using lots of memory?
> >
> > You can use the crashdump_viewer to inspect the crashdump and find out
> > more about the offending process. You can also use 'top' from another
> > OS shell while your application runs to verify that the beam
> > emulator is growing continously and slowly, that being a fatal problem.
> >
> > The beam emulator's OS process ID can be found with os:getpid().
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:39:13AM +0530, Surindar Sivanesan wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I'm using erlang emulator version 5.4.3 for running an application
> > that has
> > > to be run round the clock.
> > > The application has ran perfectly for more than 15 hours.
> > > Then the erlang shell is terminated abnormally.
> > > The general information of the crash report is
> > >
> > >  Slogan eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 373664380 bytes of memory (of
> > type
> > > "heap"). Node name 'nonode@REDACTED' Crashdump created on Thu Oct 26
> > 08:48:46
> > > 2006 System version Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.3 [threads:0]
> > > Compiled
> > > Wed Dec 15 12:59:41 2004 Memory allocated 1111921780 bytes Atoms 5644
> > > Processes
> > > 716 ETS tables 76 Funs 370
> > >
> > > Whether any latest erlang version can solve this problem?
> > > Is there any settings available to solve this problem?
> > > I'm running erlang using werl.exe; Whether running erlang using
> > erl.exe will
> > > show any difference?
> > > Please clarify...
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > --
> > > with regards,
> > > S.Surindar
> >
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> >
> > --
> >
> > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
> >
>
>
>
> --
> with regards,
> S.Surindar




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with regards,
S.Surindar
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