Questions tagged [process-dictionary]

When I'm debugging, I'm usually looking at about 5000 processes, each of which could be one of about 100 gen_servers, fsms, etc. If I want to know WHAT an erlang process is, I can do: process_info(pid(0,1,0), initial_call). And get a result…

I was playing with the process dictionary inside a gen_server module, i called get() function and i get something like this. {'$ancestors',[main_server,<0.30.0>]}, {'$initial_call',{child_server,init,1}}] what happen if i erased the process…