[rabbitmq-discuss] "Dead" beam.smp threads under high load

[Emile Joubert]

On 08/10/13 14:35, Paul Bowsher wrote:

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/tcvkjd87iwre093/straces.tar.gz is a tarball of
> straces 

> etop output: https://gist.github.com/boffbowsh/116c4c2d953350111bc7

The etop output doesn't show any Erlang process consuming an outrageous
amount of CPU, while one of the threads in the strace output appears to
be stuck in a loop. This points to a problem within the Erlang VM rather
than the Erlang code being executed.

Try upgrading to the latest version of Erlang, and also try downgrading,
in case this is a problem that was recently introduced. Also try running
with defaults in rabbitmq.config.

If the problem persists then it may be worth asking over at the
erlang-questions mailing list.



-Emile