That string as linked list thing can get ugly real fast: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-September/081032.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/er

That string as linked list thing can get ugly real fast: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-September/081032.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-September/... It was going from a binary like <<"foobar">> to a linked list string to print out as part of the crash dump, so something like ['<', '<', 'f' ... etc which absolutely blew up the memory, considering that the original binary was pretty big.