This easy code eats system memory and kill VM - is there a way to protect against such memory leaks?

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you can set a max_heap_size per process:

Can Elixir processes tolerate out of memory errors?

You can limit the max heap size per each process with Process.flag: iex> spawn(fn -> Process.flag(:max_heap_size, 233) IO.inspect(Enum.to_list(1..1000)) end) 01:06:55.841 [error] Process: #PID<0.85.0> Context: maximum heap size reached Max Heap Size: 233 Total Heap Size: 448 Kill: true Error Logger: true GC Info: [old_heap_block_size: 0, heap_block_size: 466, mbuf_size: 0, recent_size: 0, …