[erlang-questions] Binary constantly growing on erlang 18

[Lukas Larsson]

yes it does. The fix was released in 18.0.3 I believe.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Alexander Petrovsky <askjuise@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does this commit fix the problem —
> https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d2bb1ca56dcd0ab8e5b43c4368409317c3ddd4db
>  ?
>
> 2015-08-18 17:14 GMT+03:00 Lukas Larsson <lukas@REDACTED>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Erlang 18.0 seems to have introduced a memory leak in the tty driver for
>> unix platforms. This means that when printing to stdout the binary usage
>> will grow. I believe I have found a solution to the problem.
>>
>> If you have problems with this leak, using -oldshell removes the leak.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>>
>> Lukas
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Alexander Petrovsky <askjuise@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> A few days ago a noticed that erlang vm eat too many memory. I've
>>> checked system and binary memory and found that it is constantly growing.
>>> I'm start debugging with recon but without success. After disabling all
>>> application the memory sill growing.
>>>
>>> I've checken on clean vm:
>>>
>>> 1> application:which_applications().
>>> [{stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.5"},
>>>  {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","4.0"}]
>>>
>>> 2> [begin io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]), timer:sleep(1000)
>>> end || _ <- lists:seq(1, 5)].
>>> 2105616
>>> 2113976
>>> 2122144
>>> 2130504
>>> 2138864
>>>
>>> 3>  io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]), timer:sleep(5000),
>>> io:format("~p~n", [erlang:memory(binary)]).
>>> 3124360
>>> 3132720
>>>
>>> 4> 2138864 - 2105616.
>>> 33248
>>>
>>> 5> 3132720 - 3124360.
>>> 8360
>>>
>>> As you can see, the binary grow non linear and only when I call
>>> erlang:memory(binary).
>>>
>>> System: Debian 7
>>> Erlang: 18.0 esl-erlang
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Петровский Александр / Alexander Petrovsky,
>>>
>>> Skype: askjuise
>>> Phone: +7 914 8 820 815
>>>
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>>
>
>
> --
> Петровский Александр / Alexander Petrovsky,
>
> Skype: askjuise
> Phone: +7 914 8 820 815
>
>
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