Number of Processes explodes.
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Hello @binaryseed ,
Describe the bug
My team and I recently upgraded our newrelic agent from 1.23.6 to 1.27.0 and removed new_relic_phoenix (0.3.0) as suggested within the package.
Unfortunatly this resultet in an steady increase of beam processes within our live environment, as can be seen here:
Are there some steps to consider when upgrading or is this a bug?
Kind regards,
Peter
Environment
- Elixir & Erlang version (
elixir -v): Erlang/OTP 23 [erts-11.2.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] [dtrace] Elixir 1.11.4 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 23) - Agent version (
mix deps | grep new_relic_agent): new_relic_agent 1.23.6 -> 1.27.0
A recent change means that there will be 1 agent "sidecar" process per Transaction in your app, and it will live while the Transaction process lives.
The number of processes that the BEAM can handle is quite large - so alone this isn't necessarily a problem, did you see any adverse effects during this time like memory usage or CPU?