[erlang-questions] erlang woes

[Arun Suresh]

Thank you for the suggestion Joseph..

But i was aware of this bug.. it was fixed in inets-5.3.2.. my prod system
is currently running with the patched inets... so i dont think that is cause
of the crash..

-Arun

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Joseph Wayne Norton <norton@REDACTED>wrote:

>
> Please check this patch for R13B04 - I believe it will fix your memory
> leak.
>
>
> http://hibari.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=hibari/patches;a=blob;f=otp_src_R13B04-httpc-memoryleak.patch;h=14eb7a603dc7f0f49f6685260dd0d0bebddc2f4c;hb=HEAD
>
> This patch was posted previously to one of the erlang.org mailing lists.
>
> I don't know your application's requirements but I would recommend most of
> these patches for a vanilla R13B04 erlang system:
>
> http://hibari.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=hibari/patches;a=tree
>
> Instructions for applying these patches can found here:
>
>
> http://hibari.sourceforge.net/webpage-README-ERL.html#_erlang_otp_to_download
>
> regards,
>
>
>
> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:55:27 +0900, Evans, Matthew <mevans@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>  Are you using pg2 in a distributed system? There is a known (should be
>> fixed) bug where pg2 was eating memory like crazy.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: erlang-questions@REDACTED [mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED] On
>> Behalf Of Arun Suresh
>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 1:37 AM
>> To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> Subject: [erlang-questions] erlang woes
>>
>> Hello folks..
>>
>> Ive been using erlang for a while now.. and ive got a production system up
>> and running from scratch.. but there are some really annoying aspects of
>> the
>> platform.. the most fundamental of which is the fact that when a node
>> crashes it is very hard to figure out exactly why.. Almost ALL the time
>> what
>> i see in the crash dump is something akin to :
>>
>> =erl_crash_dump:0.1
>> Wed Aug  4 21:50:01 2010
>> Slogan: eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 1140328500 bytes of memory (of type
>> "heap").
>> System version: Erlang R13B04 (erts-5.7.5) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2]
>> [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
>> Compiled: Tue May 11 12:37:38 2010
>> Taints:
>>
>>
>> at which point I start to comb the sasl logs... and 9 out of 10 times...
>> it
>> is because some critical process has died and the supervisor is busy
>> restarting it.. for example, the other day.. my node crashed and from the
>> sasl logs.. i see that the http manager for a profile I had created had
>> crashed like so :
>>
>> =CRASH REPORT==== 4-Aug-2010::21:47:09 ===
>>  crasher:
>>    initial call: httpc_manager:init/1
>>    pid: <0.185.0>
>>    registered_name: httpc_manager_store
>>    exception exit: {{case_clause,
>>                         [{handler_info,#Ref<0.0.17.61372>,<0.17225.36>,
>>                              undefined,<0.15665.36>,initiating}]},
>>                     [{httpc_manager,handle_connect_and_send,5},
>>                      {httpc_manager,handle_info,2},
>>                      {gen_server,handle_msg,5},
>>                      {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}
>>      in function  gen_server:terminate/6
>>    ancestors: [httpc_profile_sup,httpc_sup,inets_sup,<0.46.0>]
>>    messages: [{'EXIT',<0.16755.36>,normal},
>>                  {connect_and_send,<0.16752.36>,#Ref<0.0.17.61366>,
>>
>>
>> and subsequent messages were related to the supervisor trying to restart
>> the
>> profile manager... and failing..
>>
>> Now my point is... why did the node have to crash.. just because the
>> manager
>> has to be restarted ?
>> and why does the crash.dump always keep telling me im out of memory..
>>
>> The problem is.. I thought erlang was built to be fault tolerant.. the
>> choice of me using erlang had a LOT to do with doing away with the having
>> to
>> code defensively.. "let it crash" and all that .. just make sure u have a
>> supervisor that restarts ur process and everything will just work fine...
>> but my experience is that most of the time.. simple process restarts bring
>> the whole node crashing down...
>>
>> Would deeply appreciate it someone could tell me if there is something
>> fundamentally wrong with the way im doing things.. or if anyones been in
>> my
>> situation and have had some enlightenments.
>>
>> thanks in advance
>> -Arun
>>
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