[erlang-questions] Memory usage

[Mats Cronqvist]

Francesca Gangemi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we notice that nodes crash during a load test because they cannot 
> allocate more memory.
> The slogan from the crash dump says
> "eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 3328160 bytes of memory (of type old_heap")."
>   
  try logging the output of erlang:system_info(allocated_areas) every 10 
sec or so. should give you a handle on what's going on.

  mats