That is one of the few cases that will take down the whole VM (at least, as of a few versions ago). Due to Erlang's concept of process isolation, there's not re

That is one of the few cases that will take down the whole VM (at least, as of a few versions ago). Due to Erlang's concept of process isolation, there's not really a sensible course of action for the VM to take if it runs out of memory. Maybe just killing the individual process or running a GC pass on every process and trying again might be a better approach than hosing the whole runtime, maybe they've fixed it. Either way, the frequency with which this happens in production Erlang apps seems to be low enough that it's essentially a non-issue for most of the Erlang community.