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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by davidw on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:29PM (#11685202)
> Allow limiting process's max heap usage

What happens when it hits that limit? Crash, or try to GC, or... ?

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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by Jtsummers on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:37PM (#11685261)
http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-8.0-rc1/erts-8.0/doc/htm...

Configurable, but can kill the process in question and/or log when it occurs. Their suggestion is to log it first and tune it from there since heap size isn't easily predictable.

EDIT: Scroll down a little bit to get this particular flag documentation.

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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by rdtsc on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:34PM (#11685236)
Haven't looked into details. But I think it is configurable. Killing is an option or just sending a message to the error logger. There was also something about it sending a special gc trace event when it hits max.
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