From 491cd4c0c0a534ab89c3ebb4c413301c91c7167d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:37:31 +0100
Subject: erts: Add env variable ERL_CRASH_DUMP_BYTES

to limit crash dump size
---
 erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'erts/doc/src/erl.xml')

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index f62d3fb170..bd88016ff0 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -1533,6 +1533,15 @@
           </item>
         </taglist>
       </item>
+      <tag><c><![CDATA[ERL_CRASH_DUMP_BYTES]]></c></tag>
+      <item>
+      <p>This variable sets the maximum size of a crash dump file in bytes.
+        The crash dump will be truncated if this limit is exceeded. If the
+	variable is not set, no size limit is enforced by default. If the
+	variable is set to <c>0</c>, the runtime system does not even attempt
+	to write a crash dump file.</p>
+      <p>Introduced in ERTS 8.1.2 (Erlang/OTP 19.2).</p>
+      </item>
       <tag><marker id="ERL_AFLAGS"/><c><![CDATA[ERL_AFLAGS]]></c></tag>
       <item>
         <p>The content of this variable is added to the beginning of the
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