Erlang Getting Too-Big-To-Fail Process Flag

From Joe Armstrong comes news that Erlang will soon feature a new process flag for those processes that just really need memory, or else: "Too big to fail processes behave like regular processes until they get too big and memory congestion occurs. If a memory allocation error is triggered when a too_big_to_fail process needs more memory, then a random smaller process is killed, and the system reattempts memory allocation for the too_big_to_fail process. An interesting situation can occur if the too big to fail process has killed all other processes and still cannot get enough memory. In this case the node running the process tries to memory steal from other nodes." Read below for your FREE logged-in-reader's-eye view of the special rot-39 version!

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If this had been the only joke...

[istartedi]

If this had been the only joke today, I think it would have worked.

Re:Great!

[wierd_w]

So, this gets to be used by all those bank and loan institutions who use trade bots to manipulate the global stock market?

Question: what happens if 2 such processes re running concurrently on the same node, and actively try to outperform the other by proactivally allocating all available free memory?

Hope /. learnt its lesson.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

None of the discussions today broke 3 digits on comments. Try something like this again, I am not coming back. Stupid rot13 trick. Whoever came up with the idea of running it this long should be fired summarily.

Re:Hope /. learnt its lesson.

[ultranova]

Stupid rot13 trick. Whoever came up with the idea of running it this long should be fired summarily.

Workplaces where people are fired sumarily for mistakes are ones where no one ever does anything except cover their ass and search for any other employer. The quality and amount of work that gets done reflects this.