[erlang-questions] Garbage Collection, BEAM memory and Erlang memory

[Tony Rogvall]

> On 23 jan 2015, at 13:27, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Correct, however just after this call the process gets hibernated so Data (I assume) is getting gc'ed right away).
> 

hibernate will garbage collect before going to sleep.


> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Dan Gudmundsson <dangud@REDACTED <mailto:dangud@REDACTED>> wrote:
> 
> Binary copy makes a new copy of the binary regardless of size, but it is only useful on ref-c binaries,
> and should be used to avoid keeping references to large binaries, when you keep and use a small part
> of the original binary. But in this case you make a copy of Data (-2 bytes) and thus will double up the memory until Data is gc'ed and refc reaches zero. So I do not see the point of the above nor of making it a list which will
> only explode your memory even more.
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