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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2016-07-01 17:32:51 +0200
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2016-07-13 14:54:56 +0200
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@@ -37,11 +37,9 @@
<note>
<p>The Erlang crash dump had a major facelift in Erlang/OTP R9C. The
- information
- in this section is therefore not directly applicable for older dumps.
- However, if you use the <seealso marker="observer:crashdump_viewer">
- <c>crashdump_viewer</c></seealso> tool in the <c>Observer</c> application
- on older dumps,
+ information in this section is therefore not directly applicable for
+ older dumps. However, if you use <seealso marker="observer:crashdump_viewer">
+ <c>observer:crashdump_viewer(3)</c></seealso> on older dumps,
the crash dumps are translated into a format similar to this.</p>
</note>
@@ -94,8 +92,7 @@
<pre>
Slogan: &lt;reason&gt;</pre>
- <p>(The word "slogan" has historical roots.)
- If the system is halted by the BIF
+ <p>If the system is halted by the BIF
<c><![CDATA[erlang:halt/1]]></c>, the slogan is the string parameter
passed to the BIF, otherwise it is a description generated by
the emulator or the (Erlang) kernel. Normally the message
@@ -221,7 +218,7 @@ Slogan: &lt;reason&gt;</pre>
<title>Scheduler Information</title>
<p>Under the tag <em>=scheduler</em> is shown information about the current
state and statistics of the schedulers in the runtime system. On
- operating systems that allow instant suspension of other threads, the
+ operating systems that allow suspension of other threads, the
data within this section reflects what the runtime system looks like
when a crash occurs.</p>
@@ -438,13 +435,6 @@ Slogan: &lt;reason&gt;</pre>
<p>The amount of unused memory on each heap. This information is
usually useless.</p>
</item>
- <tag><em>Stack</em></tag>
- <item>
- <p>If the system uses shared heap, the fields
- <em>Stack+heap</em>, <em>OldHeap</em>, <em>Heap unused</em>,
- and <em>OldHeap unused</em> do not exist. Instead this field
- shows the size of the process stack.</p>
- </item>
<tag><em>Memory</em></tag>
<item>
<p>The total memory used by this process. This includes call stack,
@@ -532,8 +522,8 @@ Slogan: &lt;reason&gt;</pre>
<tag><em>Fixed</em></tag>
<item>
<p>If the table is fixed using
- <seealso marker="stdlib:ets#ets:safe_fixtable">
- <c>ets:safe_fixtable</c></seealso> or some internal mechanism.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:ets#safe_fixtable/2">
+ <c>ets:safe_fixtable/2</c></seealso> or some internal mechanism.</p>
</item>
<tag><em>Objects</em></tag>
<item>