"Crash" can mean a lot of things, and in Erlang, a crash occurs whenever your functions are unable to perform their task (for instance, there were no functions

"Crash" can mean a lot of things, and in Erlang, a crash occurs whenever your functions are unable to perform their task (for instance, there were no functions that match your input data), or when process calls time out. More obvious crashes exist as well - a remote connection hangs up, a computer catches on fire, etc. You could also use a variety of supervisor strategies or methods to detect what caused the crash.