[erlang-questions] Crash on alloc

[Imre Palik]

Feladó: Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Training and Consulting) [francesco@REDACTED]
>
> This is the standard behaviour when the VM runs out of memory.... Try
> generating smaller lists or adding more memory to your computer.

I have 3 Gigs, and as far as I can see, this fails on an alloc of less then 400 Megs. Does this quite reliably, even as the first command of the shell.


> Imre Palik wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> can anybody explain why I'm getting this:
>>
>> 3> {lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2), lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2)}.
>>
>> Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
>> eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 373662860 bytes of memory (of type "heap").
>>
>> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
>> Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>>
>> Process inferior-erlang finished