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

[Jayson Vantuyl]

This would be a very useful tunable.

On Nov 9, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Decker, Nils wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had a few occasions during developing that a runaway process  
> caused my machine to swap and gind to a halt. (i should have used  
> ulimit on beam)
>
> I wondered why there is no way to limit the size of a single  
> process. It could be a simple option to spawn to limit the heap size  
> of a process. (like ulimit)
> The process gets killed if it ever grows beyond the limit. A limit  
> for the size of the message queue would be nice too, because a  
> process with a few thousand entries is (most of the time) not going  
> to cope with it anyway.
> A similar limit for ETS tables would be possible too. A memory limit  
> for shared resources (large binaries) would be more difficult.
>
> Nils Decker



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