[erlang-questions] Standard allocator memory leak

Lukas Larsson lukas@REDACTED
Mon Dec 10 13:37:21 CET 2018


Hello!

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:20 PM Denis Kirichenko <denis.kirichenko@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hello. Does anybody can help me to debug std_alloc memory leak. Our
> production elixir/erlang application now leak for about 200MB a day.
> Recon shows that it is because of std_alloc. But standard allocator
> contains a lot of different types of data, and I don't know how to start
> debugging this problem. Any ideas? Any ways to inspect the erlang vm?
>
>
You can use the instrument module to get more information,
http://erlang.org/doc/man/instrument.html

Note that this module had a major overhaul in OTP-21.

Lukas
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