Right, and due to Erlang's lightweight processes, it's not unusual to have a process finish before it needs to do any garbage collection. You can tune for this

Right, and due to Erlang's lightweight processes, it's not unusual to have a process finish before it needs to do any garbage collection. You can tune for this by spawning a process with a larger heap than the default - if you know that it tends to grow up to a certain size and then finish, you can just spawn it with that much to start and it will skip GC entirely.