[erlang-questions] How to see which processes used ets table?

[Robert Virding]

You have to be a little careful when doing process_info/1/2 on unknown processes. For example if you are worried about the size of message queues then doing process_info(Pid, messages) is not a good idea as it will copy the whole message queue. As in this case using dictionary as it will also copy the dictionary. Process_info() can be very useful but it is one of those BIFs with which you have to exercise care. As is processes() if you have many processes.

Robert

> From: "Morgan Segalis" <msegalis@REDACTED>
> 
> I have crafted a little function for process monitoring purpose, it
> might help you, if you're memory issue is process related...
> 
> Hope it will help
> 
> [CODE]
> info() ->
>     get_info(erlang:processes(), dict:new()).
> 
> get_info([], Dict) ->
>     io:fwrite("Dict: ~p~n", [Dict]);
> get_info([P|L], Dict) ->
>     case erlang:process_info(P, dictionary) of
> 	{dictionary, Info} ->
> 	    Initial_call = get_dict('$initial_call', Info),
> 	    Ancestor = get_dict('$ancestors', Info),
> 	    case dict:find({Initial_call, Ancestor}, Dict) of
> 		{ok, Nb} ->
> 		    IncrNb = Nb + 1;
> 		error ->
> 		    IncrNb = 1
> 	    end,
> 	    Dict2 = dict:store({Initial_call, Ancestor}, IncrNb, Dict),
> 	    get_info(L, Dict2);
> 	undefined ->
> 	    case dict:find(undefined, Dict) of
> 		{ok, Nb} ->
> 		    IncrNb = Nb + 1;
> 		error ->
> 		    IncrNb = 1
> 	    end,
> 	    Dict2 = dict:store(undefined, IncrNb, Dict),
> 	    get_info(L, Dict2)
>     end.
> [/CODE]
> 
> Le 5 févr. 2013 à 03:42, Solomon a écrit :
> 
> > I checked system info with erlang:memory/1 and found the total
> > amount of memory allocated for ets tables was about 5GB.
> > 
> > Then I sum the memory size return by ets:i/0 and it was about
> > 600MB.
> > 
> > So which processes used ets table and did not return by ets:i/0?
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