[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ keeps crashing, wrong rabbitmqctl nodedown

[josua.troesch at bluewin.ch]

Hi,

Our RabbitMQ instance keeps crashing with an error like this:
eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 373662860 bytes of 
memory (of type "old_heap")

Its still a version 1.6.0 but because of some application constraints we can't update yet. 
Also, I can't check the status with rabbitmqctl as this always reports a {badrpc,nodedown}

The crash dump is too long 
to post here, starts like this:

=erl_crash_dump:0.1
Wed Sep 15 10:37:25 2010
Slogan: eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 
373662860 bytes of memory (of type "old_heap").
System version: Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [smp:8:8] [rq:8] [async-
threads:30]
Compiled: Sun Jun  7 19:22:30 2009

rabbit-sasl.log reports this crash dump:

=CRASH REPORT==== 15-Sep-
2010::12:11:19 ===
  crasher:
    initial call: gen:init_it/6
    pid: <0.1559.0>
    registered_name: []
    exception 
exit: {writer,send_failed,badarg}
      in function  gen_server2:terminate/6
    ancestors: [<0.1558.0>]
    messages: 
[{'EXIT',<0.1558.0>,normal}]
    links: []
    dictionary: [{permission_cache,
                      [{{resource,<<"
/prd">>,queue,
                            <<"amq.gen-U0srCoW8TsaXjNh73pnVAw==">>},
                        read},

                       {{resource,<<"/prd">>,exchange,
                            <<"myapp">>},

                        read},
                       {{resource,<<"/prd">>,queue,
                            <<"amq.
gen-U0srCoW8TsaXjNh73pnVAw==">>},
                        write},
                       {{resource,<<"/prd">>,
exchange,
                            <<"myapp">>},
                        configure},
                       
{{resource,<<"/prd">>,queue,
                            <<"amq.gen-U0srCoW8TsaXjNh73pnVAw==">>},

                        configure}]},
                  {guid,{{177,<0.1559.0>},3}}]
    trap_exit: true
    status: 
running
    heap_size: 17711
    stack_size: 24
    reductions: 72448611
  neighbours:

Thanks for any hints!