[erlang-questions] Partial disk based and partial memory based terms

[Ali Sabil]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Maruthavanan Subbarayan
<maruthavanan_s@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am building an application that would receive requests on bulk and process
> at back-end. I wrote an code where requested would be inserted into mnesia
> and the would be processed later.But ended up in a situation where started
> receiving enormous requests and processing of the requests took more time.
> So gradually, I faced couple of times where erlang got crashed due to
> insufficient memory allocation on RAM. There were around 300K records while
> it got crashed.
>
> Is there any workaround where I can keep only 10-20% of the total records in
> RAM and remaining in disk at any point of time. I have Gigs of disk space
> and only Megs of RAM. I am looking this as an alternative because It would
> also give memory for other process in the machine without occupying it
> unnecessarily.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marutha
>

If you use a 64bits node and add configure your OS to have plenty of
swap space, it shouldn't crash.