Hello, I get these kind of email every 2 days or so. Sometimes on our Elixir app (up2date Phoenix with LiveView), sometimes on the Postgres App… Out of memory: Killed process 520 (beam.smp) total-vm:1677288kB, anon-rss:393412kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:114180kB, UID:65534 pgtables:1300kB oom_score…

my_app ran out of memory and crashed

mathiasn May 3, 2023, 4:51am 5

Just found that it’s even mentioned in the docs. That was also helpful.

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