[erlang-questions] Unstable erlang compared to java or perl

[Ryan Zezeski]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen <
jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Petter Egesund
> <petter.egesund@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> > Full source code? It is unfortunately to long and to data-bound to
> > make sense. Still hoping for a clue - ets:i() tells me that total ets
> > should be less than to 1 gb total, but memory() says it is using more
> > than 5 gb for ets.
>
> ets:i/0 reports words.
> erlang:memory/0 reports bytes.
>
> So that should not be surprising that they differ by a factor of 4.
>
> --
> J.
>

Jesper beat me to it...the memory reported by ets:info and ets:i is in
words...not bytes.

Petter, I don't think you're actually deleting these tables, which is proven
by the fact that they show up in ets:i/0.  I'll say it again, they are not
garbage collected...they don't live on the process heap.  THere are two ways
to delete an ETS table: 1) call ets:delete or 2) the owner dies and there is
no heir.  When they are deleted  the memory is reclaimed.

Here is a erl session showing what I mean...

1> ets:i().
 id              name              type  size   mem      owner
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 13              code              set   257    10711    code_server
 4110            code_names        set   57     7754     code_server
 8207            shell_records     ordered_set 0      112      <0.25.0>
 ac_tab          ac_tab            set   6      878
 application_controller
 file_io_servers file_io_servers   set   0      322      file_server_2
 global_locks    global_locks      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names    global_names      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names_ext global_names_ext  set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_ids  global_pid_ids    bag   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_names global_pid_names  bag   0      322      global_name_server
 inet_cache      inet_cache        bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_db         inet_db           set   29     706      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byaddr inet_hosts_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byname inet_hosts_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byaddr inet_hosts_file_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byname inet_hosts_file_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
ok
2> ets:new(test, [public, named_table]).
test
3> ets:i().
 id              name              type  size   mem      owner
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 13              code              set   257    10711    code_server
 4110            code_names        set   57     7754     code_server
 8207            shell_records     ordered_set 0      112      <0.25.0>
 ac_tab          ac_tab            set   6      878
 application_controller
 file_io_servers file_io_servers   set   0      322      file_server_2
 global_locks    global_locks      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names    global_names      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names_ext global_names_ext  set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_ids  global_pid_ids    bag   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_names global_pid_names  bag   0      322      global_name_server
 inet_cache      inet_cache        bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_db         inet_db           set   29     706      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byaddr inet_hosts_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byname inet_hosts_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byaddr inet_hosts_file_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byname inet_hosts_file_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
 test            test              set   0      322      <0.31.0>
ok
4> ets:delete(test).
true
5> ets:i().
 id              name              type  size   mem      owner
 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 13              code              set   257    10711    code_server
 4110            code_names        set   57     7754     code_server
 8207            shell_records     ordered_set 0      112      <0.25.0>
 ac_tab          ac_tab            set   6      878
 application_controller
 file_io_servers file_io_servers   set   0      322      file_server_2
 global_locks    global_locks      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names    global_names      set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_names_ext global_names_ext  set   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_ids  global_pid_ids    bag   0      322      global_name_server
 global_pid_names global_pid_names  bag   0      322      global_name_server
 inet_cache      inet_cache        bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_db         inet_db           set   29     706      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byaddr inet_hosts_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_byname inet_hosts_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byaddr inet_hosts_file_byaddr bag   0      322      inet_db
 inet_hosts_file_byname inet_hosts_file_byname bag   0      322      inet_db
ok