Tuesday, September 29, 2009

How to see the running processes in erlang shell

Erlang provides a built-in utility called etop, that is same as standard top utility on Unix. Instead of monitoring processes on the operating system, etop show the current running/active Erlang processes. By default it starts a GUI window to show the processes running. Sometimes GUI is not desirable especially when the Erlang shell is running on production servers. Documentation does not show any way to start etop in text mode. Here is how to run it


etop:start([{output, text}]).

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