[rabbitmq-discuss] eheap_alloc error

[majek04]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 17:03, Suhail Doshi <suhail at mixpanel.com> wrote:
> Doing some investigation into what happened, apparently the memory just
> instantly got used, it wasn't leaking something slowly...any ideas?
> Attached is an image of memory usage, then the consumer dies freeing up the
> memory used later.

It looks like erlang was trying to allocate 5 gigs of RAM, and failed.
This could have happened during garbage collection, but only
if a single erlang process was using all the memory.

Do you have a single large queue?
Are you sure that the queue had reasonable size during the crash?
Maybe all the consumers had died and rabbit just ran out of memory?

Cheers!
  Marek Majkowski