[erlang-questions] Memory growing

[Alex P]

I've tested NIFs from lists module and they seem to be fine.

So, coming back to square one, how can I debug what is allocated in the 
"system" section of erlang:memory/0 ?

Alex

On Saturday, February 2, 2013 10:52:04 PM UTC+2, Alex P wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> If somebody could help me with an issue, I would be grateful. I'm pulling 
> my hair off trying to figure out why an erlang app keeps growing in memory 
> usage. The erlang:memory() after 3 days shows this:
>
> [{total,325732292},
>  {processes,54520269},
>  {processes_used,54492115},
> * {system,271212023},
> * {atom,932793},
>  {atom_used,912937},
>  {binary,2348080},
>  {code,8288354},
>  {ets,487392},
>  {maximum,398189416}]
>
> The interesting part is "system" section. All other data is fine 
> (processes goes to few MBs during the night as all the started procs are 
> either hibernated - for long running or they die because of inactivity).
>
> There are two issues here:
> - "system" keeps growing (around 800MB/week)
> - OS (Linux) shows a significantly different amount of memory usage 
> (almost 2x, 610MB resident in this case)
>
> The only case where I've managed to make "system" grow is by calling 
> erlang:monitor() multiple times. It grows with ~13K/call.
>
> Erlang release used is R15B03. 
>
> The questions are:
> - is there any hidden function to inspect all the active process monitors? 
> (as the single place where I use erlang:monitor looks fine. The spawned kid 
> does its job and dies, so the ref should be garbage collected).
> - is there any way to inspect "system" section and find out what it 
> contains? Looking at memory chunks in process map got me nowhere
>
> Thank you,
> Alex
>
>
>
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