Re: [Erlyaws-list] How can I access JSON session data (ouside of JSON method)

[Yariv S. <ya...@gm...>]

That's actually _very_ worrysome, because I can imagine many
developers would blissfully go creating new atoms during normal usage
without realizing the danger involved. Can something be done about
this???

Thanks,
Yariv

On 6/28/06, Christian S <ch...@gm...> wrote:
> Yes, the OTP implementation of Erlang does not garbage collect  the
> atom names. So a malicious user would be able to create a few million
> atoms, consuming all the memory, and the only way out is to restart
> the VM.