[rabbitmq-discuss] Rabbitmq 2.7.1 / R14B02 crash - updates

Wed Mar 28 10:30:40 BST 2012

On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:11:15 +0100
Simon MacMullen <simon at rabbitmq.com> wrote:

> On 23/03/12 12:09, Andrei Vereha wrote:
> > Why the beam process takes 1.4 Gb and the rabbitmqctl status reports
> > only a few hundred Mb?
> > I see the same value(raported by rabbitmqctl status) in the
> > management web inteface.
> > Is there a way to find where goes the memory?
> > Am I using a wrong erlang version?
> 
> That's a very good question. Both rabbitmqctl status and management
> are reporting on the amount of memory reported used by the Erlang VM.
> Which is the same value which controls the memory alarm.
> 
> This should match up with the RSS value reported by ps. Since yours 
> doesn't, the best I can recommend is upgrading Erlang.
> 
> Cheers, Simon

Thank you for answering my question.
I updated erlang to R15B, and it looks better. There still is a
difference between the memory reported by ps and the one reported by
rabbitmqctl status: ps reports 441444, and rabbitmqctl reports
367336928. 

Regards,
  Andrei