[erlang-questions] segfaults in cowboy rest server

Garry Hodgson garry@REDACTED
Fri Apr 10 15:01:46 CEST 2015


On 4/10/15 2:44 AM, Michael Truog wrote:
> If you have any port drivers or NIFs that are used in the system, it 
> would be best to examine them closely for errors hiding within. For 
> example, a port driver that is written with C++ that throws an 
> exception into the Erlang VM (for example, a timeout exception that 
> has never before occurred) will crash the Erlang VM in new and 
> exciting ways that can include seg faults.
>
> If you are using maps, that could also be a cause, since there are 
> still bugs being worked on.
not using either port drivers or NIFs, nor maps. just plain vanilla erlang.
the segfaults seemed to start when i added the forced gc, but that was
shortly after migrating to cowboy and r17.4, so it's hard to isolate just
what could have changed to cause this.





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