On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote: > io:format(S, "~p.~n",[Term]), This is most interesting place. It is ok, when your process, that is dumping term on disk can fit into 2-8 GB of RAM, but I have met situations, when 20 GB was not enough. Printing translate everything to lists =(