[erlang-questions] Timeout Erlang GenServer Crash Loop

[Code Box]

Will it not relate to any CPU Stats of my host and also any memory stats of
my host that the process is overloaded ? I see CPU % usage as just 50% ?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Michael Truog <mjtruog@REDACTED> wrote:

> **
> On 10/11/2012 09:03 PM, Code Box wrote:
>
> ** Reason for termination ==
> ** {timeout,{gen_server,call,[thetime,gettime]}}
>
>  =CRASH REPORT==== 2012-10-09 05:37:04 UTC ===
>   crasher:
>     initial call: process_listener:-init/1-fun-2-/0
>     pid: <0.12376.513>
>     registered_name: []
>     exception exit: {timeout,{gen_server,call,[thetime,gettime]}}
>       in function  gen_server:terminate/6
>     ancestors: [incoming_req_processor,incoming_sup,top_process_sup,
>                   <0.52.0>]
>     messages: []
>     links: []
>     dictionary: [{random_seed,{23375,22820,17046}}]
>     trap_exit: true
>     status: running
>      heap_size: 6765
>     stack_size: 24
>     reductions: 1646842
>   neighbours:
>
>  I am seeing a lot of these messages in my Crash Reports. Once this
> reaches this it goes into this crash loop for quite a while. I am not sure
> how to debug this error. These timeouts are really annoying. Can some one
> help me understand the root cause of this?
>
>  Why does my genserver calls are facing timeouts ? Is it that my erlang
> VM is slow if so why ? How can i debug this issue to get to the root cause
> of it ?
>
>  If you look at gen_server:call/2 at
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html
> it shows the default Timeout is 5000 milliseconds (5 seconds).  Your
> gen_server process must have been processing for longer than 5 seconds
> while a gen_server:call/2 message was waiting in the process message queue,
> to cause the timeout exception.  So, it isn't the Erlang VM being slow, it
> is just an Erlang process that is overloaded (i.e., the "thetime"
> registered process).
>
>
>
>
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