[erlang-questions] Why Beam.smp crashes when memory is over?

[Jayson Vantuyl]

 From within Erlang, I don't believe so.

 From outside, maybe, with the right debugger.

In general, I believe the heartbeat functionality (i.e. erl -heart) is  
supposed to handle this by letting it crash and restarting the whole  
application.

On Nov 8, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Max Lapshin wrote:

> Why does Erlang crashes, when physical memory is over?
>
> Error is:
>
> beam.smp(5454,0xb01aa000) malloc: *** mmap(size=41943040) failed  
> (error code=12)
>
>         *** error: can't allocate region
>
>                                         *** set a breakpoint in
> malloc_error_break to debug
>
>
> Isn't it possible to intercept this error and stop erlang process,
> that requests memory?
>
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