[erlang-questions] Binary constantly growing on erlang 18

Alexander Petrovsky askjuise@REDACTED
Tue Sep 22 10:29:25 CEST 2015


Hello,

Does this commit fix the problem —
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d2bb1ca56dcd0ab8e5b43c4368409317c3ddd4db
 ?

2015-08-18 17:14 GMT+03:00 Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED>:

> Hello,
>
> Erlang 18.0 seems to have introduced a memory leak in the tty driver for
> unix platforms. This means that when printing to stdout the binary usage
> will grow. I believe I have found a solution to the problem.
>
> If you have problems with this leak, using -oldshell removes the leak.
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> Lukas
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Alexander Petrovsky <askjuise@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> A few days ago a noticed that erlang vm eat too many memory. I've checked
>> system and binary memory and found that it is constantly growing. I'm start
>> debugging with recon but without success. After disabling all application
>> the memory sill growing.
>>
>> I've checken on clean vm:
>>
>> 1> application:which_applications().
>> [{stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.5"},
>>  {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","4.0"}]
>>
>> 2> [begin io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]), timer:sleep(1000)
>> end || _ <- lists:seq(1, 5)].
>> 2105616
>> 2113976
>> 2122144
>> 2130504
>> 2138864
>>
>> 3>  io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]), timer:sleep(5000),
>> io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]).
>> 3124360
>> 3132720
>>
>> 4> 2138864 - 2105616.
>> 33248
>>
>> 5> 3132720 - 3124360.
>> 8360
>>
>> As you can see, the binary grow non linear and only when I call
>> erlang:memory(binary).
>>
>> System: Debian 7
>> Erlang: 18.0 esl-erlang
>>
>> Can anyone help me?
>>
>> --
>> Петровский Александр / Alexander Petrovsky,
>>
>> Skype: askjuise
>> Phone: +7 914 8 820 815
>>
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