Hello everyone,<br><br>I've just had a failure in one of my live services because an erlang node ran out of memory (caused by a traffic spike). Restart mechanisms exist to restart the node, but the node took a long time to die because it was writing a large erl_crash.dump file, and then there was a 7GB core dump.<br>
<br>Is there a quicker way to fail? I'm thinking of disabling core dumps entirely on the box. What else can I do? A configuration option on the node to only produce a summary erl_crash.dump would be nice. The most useful things for me in a crash dump usually are the slogan at the top, and the message queue lengths of each process. In this particular case, the slogan would've told me all that I needed to know.<br>
<br>Chandru<br><br>