[erlang-questions] : Erlang shell crashes

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:51:22PM +0530, Surindar Sivanesan wrote:
> >From the crash dump viewer, I have noticed that the stack+heap size and
> message queue lenght are high for some processes.
> 

If the message queue length is high for some processes that mostly
means that they do not read messages as they should. Message queue
lengths are mostly 1 or 0.

The question is probably: what did they do instead of receive?
(Fill the heap!?) The stackdump (in the crashdump viewer) may tell.



>  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=<0.128.0>>
> controling_process Waiting 162446666 10946 380465
> <0.60.0><http://localhost:8888/cdv_erl/crashdump_viewer/proc_details?pid=<0.60.0>>
> 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.exewill
> >> 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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