[erlang-questions] etop flooded with "Erlang top got garbage" messages

[Anton Lebedevich]

On 03/13/2013 06:32 AM, Mike Cugini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was recently put on an erlang project, and I've been trying to get
> etop working to help profile some issues our app has been having (mostly
> interested in Message Queue sizes).
> 
> Etop is started with this command:
> 
> erl -name etop@<ip> -hidden -s etop -s erlang halt \
>                -output text -sort reductions -lines 50 \
>                -node <node_name> -setcookie <cookie>
> 
> Whenever I start etop, I see a flood of "Erlang top got garbage" messages:


-tracing off flag might help etop. Another possible source of that
garbage is mnesia.

Regards,
Anton Lebedevich.