[erlang-questions] Unexpected limitations

Lukas Larsson lukas@REDACTED
Wed Mar 27 08:37:25 CET 2013


Hello Stu!

As Bengt pointed out you need a 64 bit erlang emulator because the list you
created in 2 words * 100 million which would be about 1.6 GB. When the
copying GC kicks in that expands to very close to 4GB which is the max in a
32 bit emulator. To compile a 64 but emulator on OS X see
http://www.erlang.org/doc/installation_guide/INSTALL.html#id72320

Lukas


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Danil Zagoskin <z@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi, Stu.
>
> Does your beam crash when you call lists:duplicate(100000000, a) ?
>
> The difference is lists:duplicate is tail-recursive while lists:seq and
> big_lists:make_list are body-recursive so you can hit some stack size
> limit, not lists length one.
>
>
> 2013/3/27 Stu Bailey <stu.bailey@REDACTED>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an 8 core MacBook Pro Retina Display with 16GB of memory.   I am
>> running R16B with no configure options...but I did install
>> libatomic_ops-7.2 .     I tried a very simple list allocation test which
>> surprisingly failed with a list size of 100 million.    I first made a list
>> with 10 million integers.   The beam hung on 100 million.   Thinking it was
>> something with lists:seq, I just wrote a dumb test to build big lists of
>> single character atoms.  That also failed at 100 million.   Is there a
>> known limitation to the size of lists in Erlang?
>>
>> bash-3.2$ uname -a
>> Darwin myhost.local 12.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan  6
>> 22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>>
>> bash-3.2$ erl
>> Erlang R16B (erts-5.10.1) [source] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe]
>> [kernel-poll:false]
>>
>> My Erlang Environment
>> Eshell V5.10.1  (abort with ^G)
>> 1> lists:seq(1,10000000).
>> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,
>>  23,24,25,26,27,28,29|...]
>> 2> lists:seq(1,100000000).
>> beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=458227712) failed (error
>> code=12)
>>
>>         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                         *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>         beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=659554304)
>> failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                 *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                 *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>                 beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=791674880) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                         *** set a
>> breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>                         beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=791674880) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                                 *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                                 *** set a
>> breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>                                 beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=791674880) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                                         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                                         ***
>> set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>                                         beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000)
>> malloc: *** mmap(size=790962176) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                                                 *** error: can't allocate
>> region
>>
>>
>>     *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>
>> beam.smp(85491,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=790962176) failed (error
>> code=12)
>>
>>                                                         *** error: can't
>> allocate region
>>      *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>                                                         Killed: 9
>>
>>
>> ================
>>
>>  -module(big_lists).
>>
>> -compile([export_all]).
>>
>>
>> make_list(0,Acc)->
>>     Acc;
>> make_list(Size,Acc) ->
>>     make_list(Size-1, [a] ++ Acc).
>>
>> ===================
>>
>> 5> c(big_lists).
>> {ok,big_lists}
>> 6> big_lists:make_list(2,[]).
>> [a,a]
>> 7> big_lists:make_list(100000,[]).
>> [a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a|...]
>> 8> big_lists:make_list(1000000,[]).
>> [a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a|...]
>> 9> big_lists:make_list(10000000,[]).
>> [a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a|...]
>> 10> big_lists:make_list(100000000,[]).
>> beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=381681664) failed (error
>> code=12)
>>
>>         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                         *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>         beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=659554304)
>> failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                 *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                 *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>                 beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=791674880) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                         *** set a
>> breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>
>> [a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a,a|...]
>> beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=950009856) failed (error
>> code=12)
>>
>>         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                         *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>         beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: *** mmap(size=950009856)
>> failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                 *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                 *** set a breakpoint in
>> malloc_error_break to debug
>>                 beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=949153792) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                         *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                         *** set a
>> breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>                         beam.smp(85534,0xb039d000) malloc: ***
>> mmap(size=949153792) failed (error code=12)
>>
>>                                 *** error: can't allocate region
>>
>>                                                                 *** set a
>> breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
>>
>> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
>> eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 949152844 bytes of memory (of type "heap").
>> Abort trap: 6
>>
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