November 2009
3 posts
sniffer - Erlang NIF example →
Uses NIFs in otp-R13B03 to grab a binary at a specific memory location.
Nov 25th
Riak's dets backend - too many files open error
I was playing with Riak yesterday and ran into this error on my Macbook running Snow Leopard: { {badmatch,{error,{{badmatch,{error, {file_error,"./dets-store/1392993748081016843912887106182707253109560705024",emfile}}}, [ {riak_vnode,init,1}, {gen_server2,init_it,6}, {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3} ]}} }, ...
Nov 20th
When Linux Runs Out of Memory - O'Reilly Media →
Good article explaining Linux’s default overcommit-ing behavior (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory) and the OOM killer.
Nov 2nd