[erlang-questions] dialyzer in R11B-4

[Rickard Green]

We will probably also distribute R11B-5 as a "pre-built OTP package" 
with most platform-independent build results included (including 
dialyzers initial plt).

BR,
Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.

Kostis Sagonas wrote:
> Jay Edwards wrote:
>> On 4/25/07, *Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)* <ulf.wiger@REDACTED 
>> <mailto:ulf.wiger@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     I'll try to get back to figuring out why
>>     Dialyzer crashed in the first place
>>     (the reason why I tried to disable it.)
>>
>>
>> I've had one reproducible crash while building the Dialyzer -- it was in 
>> a relatively resource constrained system, and basically I ran out of 
>> swap space while generating the PLTs.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Indeed such crashes can happen in a system that does not have enough 
> memory (e.g has less than 512M of RAM).
> 
> The Dialyzer version which will be part of R11B-5 improves significantly 
> in this respect, but Erlang/OTP has no mechanism to gracefully recover 
> when it runs out of memory (when it cannot allocate enough memory for a 
> heap expansion).
> 
> Kostis
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