[erlang-questions] finding hard to find bugs in production systems

[Chandru]

2010/1/25 Fredrik Thulin <ft@REDACTED>

> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 23:51 -0600, Scott Lystig Fritchie wrote:
> > Fredrik, have you tried using etop?  It's easy enough to find the CPU
> > pig, though identifying exactly what that pig is doing isn't always so
> > easy.
>
> No, it was several years since I looked at etop. Thanks for reminding me
> about it, I should have thought of that myself.
>
> How would a bug in some low level function like the one discussed in
>
>
> http://old.nabble.com/100--CPU-usage-on-Mac-OS-X-Leopard-after-peer-closes-socket-td16731178.html
>
> look in etop? Does anyone know?
>
> Etop isn't ideal though since it requires some knowledge to use, and
> also might not be practically usable in a situation where everyone wants
> the production system back to normal state as soon as possible...
>
>
Maybe you could ask your client to shutdown the node using erlang:halt/1.
That should force an erl_crash.dump to be written which might give you clues
about the 'pig'.

Chandru