instrument

instrument

Module

instrument

Module summary

Analysis and Utility Functions for Instrumentation

Description

The module instrument contains support for studying the resource usage in an Erlang runtime system. Currently, only the allocation of memory can be studied.

Note

Note that this whole module is experimental, and the representations used as well as the functionality is likely to change in the future.

The instrument module interface was slightly changed in Erlang/OTP R9C.

To start an Erlang runtime system with instrumentation, use the +Mi* set of command-line arguments to the erl command (see the erts_alloc(3) and erl(1) man pages).

The basic object of study in the case of me