[erlang-questions] Preallocate memory

[Gustav Simonsson]

Hi,

Afaik there is no flag for the Erlang VM to tell it to preallocate memory.

There is however the +hms flag to increase the default heap size of Erlang
processes.
You may want to look at the +hmbs and +a flags [1] as well depending on how
your Erlang application is constructed.

There is also a ton of flags for the Erlang allocators [2] which could be
useful.

The most efficient way however, if you want to limit the RAM usage of your
Java app, is probably to configure the JVM with the -Xmx flag [3], or use
something like ulimit [4] or cgroups [5] to limit the JVM.

Cheers,
Gustav

[1] http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html
[2] http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erts_alloc.html#flags
[3] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/java.html)
[4] http://ss64.com/bash/ulimit.html
[5] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Matthew Evans <mattevans123@REDACTED>wrote:

> Hi Group
>
> What is the best way (if it's possible) to preallocate memory on startup
> for the Erlang VM? On our setup we have a low priority Java app that we
> don't want to consume RAM that is needed for the higher priority Erlang VM.
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
>
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