[erlang-questions] Crash on alloc

[Valentin Micic]

What was I thinking (drinking?)...
Sorry for an incoherent posting. What I've meant to say was:

I've been trying to reproduce problem related to {lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2), 
lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2)}crashes using different emulators.
The results (Windows only) are below:

1) 5.6.5 emulator with SMP support crashes, as reported.
2) 5.5.4 without SMP support does not crash!
3) 5.6.5 without SMP support does not crash!

It seems that the problem may be somehow related to SMP support.

Regards etc.

V.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Valentin Micic" <v@REDACTED>
To: <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Crash on alloc



Hmmm... just tried it on windoze with mixed results:

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [smp:2] [async-threads:0]

Allocates the memory and then crashes. OTOH:

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.5.4 [async-threads:0]

Note that 5.5.4 does not have smp support. Then I got my imagination going,
so I've started 5.6.5 with SMP support and the thing worked.

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [async-threads:0] Eshell V5.6.5  (abort
with ^G) (gsmat@REDACTED)1> {lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2), lists:seq(3,
40000000, 2)}.
{[3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,
  43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57|...],
 [3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,
  45,47,49,51,53,55|...]}
(gsmat@REDACTED)2>

Hope this helps someone, somewhat, somewhere.

V

-----Original Message-----
From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED
[mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Michael McDaniel
Sent: 06 February 2009 09:47 PM
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Crash on alloc


 I only have 1/2 GB memory and the operation works ...


mmcdanie@REDACTED:~$ erl
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [async-threads:0] [hipe]
[kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.6.5  (abort with ^G)
1> {lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2), lists:seq(3, 40000000, 2)}.
{[3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,
  43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57|...],
 [3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,
  45,47,49,51,53,55|...]}
2> q().
ok
3> mmcdanie@REDACTED:~$ uname -a
Linux phemora 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686
GNU/Linux

mmcdanie@REDACTED:~$ dmesg | egrep Memory
[    0.004000] Memory: 472772k/491456k available (2572k kernel code, 18024k
reserved, 1160k data, 424k init, 0k highmem)

mmcdanie@REDACTED:~$ ulimit -a
core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority             (-e) 0
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 3839
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority              (-r) 0
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 3839
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited


~M


On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:46:41PM +0100, Jachym Holecek wrote:
> # Imre Palik 2009-02-06:
> > 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.
>
> Assuming you're running a Unix-like OS: try increasing your data area
> limit (man ulimit).
>
> -- Jachym
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