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

Anton Lebedevich mabrek@REDACTED
Wed Jan 28 13:21:03 CET 2015


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Anton Lebedevich <mabrek@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> One way to catch it is to run a shell script that checks beam memory
>> usage every second and forces crash dump via kill -USR1 when it passes
>> some threshold. Then you can analyse obtained dump file for big
>> processes or allocator usage.
>
> Hi Anton,
> Yes I'm also puzzled why no crash dump is generated for me.

Crash with no dump might be caused by system OOM killer.

Regards,
Anton



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