[rabbitmq-discuss] Help with my rabbitmq crashing

Wed Oct 10 09:02:56 BST 2012

128GB swap is crashed also, :(
root at rabbitmq2:/var/log/rabbitmq# cat startup_err

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
eheap_alloc: Cannot allocate 16992218280 bytes of memory (of type "heap").
Aborted

2012/10/10 Geocast <info at geocast.net>:
> I added the swap to 128GB, try to recover it now.
>
>
> 2012/10/10 Matthias Radestock <matthias at rabbitmq.com>:
>> On 09/10/12 14:33, Geocast wrote:
>>>
>>> The current status: all 32GB swap has been used out. The system dies,
>>> call IDC support to restart the server now.
>>
>>
>> It will probably need a lot more than 32GB to recover. I suggest you provide
>> it with as much swap as you can.
>>
>> I've managed to reproduce this "need lots of memory when recovering from
>> unclean shutdown" behaviour. We will fix that in a future release.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Matthias.