[erlang-questions] Windows 64bit erlang install actually 32bit?

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

Our naming of Windows is very misleading.

In this context "win32" means Windows OS not wordsize. For instance 
os:type/0 will return {win32,_} on 64 bit and that is because we don't 
want to make the distinction between win32 and win64. It should probably 
just have been 'windows' from the first implementation but .. C'est la vie.

Check for wordsize to be sure.

Eshell V7.0  (abort with ^G)
1> erlang:system_info(system_architecture).
"win32"
2> os:type().
{win32,nt}
3> erlang:system_info(wordsize).
8

// Björn-Egil


On 2014-09-04 04:45, Eric Cotter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using RabbitMQ on a Windows 64bit OS.
> I installed the 64 bit most recent windows distro.
>
> I ran the erlang console and verified that it is 64 bit.
>
> I installed rabbitmq, which is written in erlang and the installed 
> components are a bunch of beam files.  When I run the server and 
> execute the rabbitmqctl eval erlang:system-info(system-architecture).  
> I get win32.
>
> I'm facing a problem in my dev environment where erlang is crashing at 
> just 2gb of ram.  I have the crash dump files. This Windows VM has 
> 25gb ram and 8 cores.  I am running at 30 to 50% CPU utilization when 
> erlang crashes.
>
> I have verified all previous erlang versions have been removed and the 
> registry prior to install.
>
> Any thoughts other then the obvious to install on Linux and I will 
> be.  I have an urgent need to be able to run rabbitmq in a larger 
> memory constraint.
>
> Rabbitmq management UI tells me the erlang instance is 64 bit, however 
> it acts like its 32bit and the architecture tells me so.
>
> What can I do to run RabbitMQ in 64 bit.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Eric Cotter
>
>
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