[erlang-questions] eheap_alloc

[Caragea Silviu]

Found myself the problem, I dumped all the memory for the beam.smp process
and looked with an editor inside that file. Seems a bug in the http client
we are using as time 10 GB of file is full with strings for the HTTP
requests.



On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:37 AM, Caragea Silviu <silviu.cpp@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I see suddenly one of my erlang apps memory usage increased from 5 GB to
> 15 GB without no load or useful logs.
>
> After some debugging I see that the 10 GB leaked are allocated by
> eheap_alloc, but I cannot stop what process allocated that.
>
> My question is : NIF library leaks can show the memory under eheap_alloc
> or I can safely assume that there is no NIF leak here
>
> Any other idea to stop what I can do to identify the issue is welcome
>
> Silviu
>
>
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