[erlang-questions] Creating a diagnostic memory dump of live erlang VM

[Dan Gudmundsson]

Have you tried observer?
Shows message boxes and gen_server states and more.



On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Vladimir Ralev <vladimir.ralev@REDACTED>wrote:

> From what I've seen the crashdump doesn't really have any of the objects
> in the memory. If I have a string stuck in some mailbox or even just state
> inside a gen_server process, can I see it?
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Geoff Cant <nem@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Provided you're prepared to take down the node, you can
>> erlang:halt("crashdump") and you'll get a dump of memory, heaps, tables,
>> ... - erl_crash.dump file.
>>
>> You can view this in a web browser with crashdump_viewer.
>>
>> Crashdump debugging is unfortunate, but extremely useful. I use it on all
>> my production systems.
>>
>> -G
>>
>> > On 18/02/2014, at 16:00, Vladimir Ralev <vladimir.ralev@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > As a Java developer I really miss being able to create a "heap dump" of
>> a live Erlang VM where I can see the objects in each process and the
>> current process stack variables/trace. I realise there is no java-like heap
>> in Erlang but there are the processes, mailboxes, stacks, file handles,
>> sockets, ets and so on.
>> >
>> > In Java we can also use query tools to search the heaps for specific
>> identifying strings/numbers/timestamps to find a graph of related objects.
>> You can go find objects by type or find the stack variables for given
>> thread. It would be very useful for understanding the system in production
>> and diagnose issues.
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to have something like this in Erlang or it is
>> fundamentally not allowed?
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