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authorLukas Larsson <lukas@erlang.org>2021-04-09 11:21:05 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-04-09 11:21:05 +0200
commit0979a82ba72e91a308dfe373ae0140b5796a1d5a (patch)
tree92fce2c6a003f214ba1ca5fee5e19aee4deb0529
parent3b3729d0c98e9e38743ee981b75576a45b5633d2 (diff)
parent6986c13f817e385bf1de9fb5208a64d885783a26 (diff)
downloaderlang-0979a82ba72e91a308dfe373ae0140b5796a1d5a.tar.gz
Merge pull request #4720 from michalslaski/erts/doc-fix
Describe wordsize found in the garbage collector trace events
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml6
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diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 384b0f21e0..512a40305d 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -11715,6 +11715,12 @@ improper_end</pre>
<item>The total size of binaries allowed in the virtual
old heap in the process before doing a garbage
collection.</item>
+ <tag><c>wordsize</c></tag>
+ <item>For the <c>gc_minor_start</c> event it is the size
+ of the need that triggered the GC. For the corresponding
+ <c>gc_minor_end</c> event it is the size of reclaimed
+ memory = start <c>heap_size</c> - end
+ <c>heap_size</c>.</item>
</taglist>
<p>All sizes are in words.</p>
</item>