[erlang-questions] Memory Leak

[Torben Hoffmann]

Off the top of my head...

Are you registering the processes with a unique identifier?
If so you will run into a memory leak as those atoms are not garbage
collected.

You could also have an issue with the number of processes you spawn - unless
you specify +P <number> you are limited to maximum
number-I-cannot-remember-right-now processes.

What is "pretty quickly" anyway?

Cheers,
Torben

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:10 PM, andrew mmc <andrewmmc@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello, all,
> I have a system that involves spawning lots of processes to work on the
> same set of data.  Each process reports to one of a number of listener
> processes that collate the results and determines the next bit of work to
> do.  There is also a fair amount of inter-process communication.  I have
> found that pretty quickly, erlang runs out of memory.
>
> What is the best way to find out what is going on and what the cause of
> this leak is?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Andrew
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