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10 Ways to Stop an Erlang VM

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Do you have an Erlang VM that you don’t need anymore and you don’t know what to do with it? Worry not, my friend, this is just the list for you! Fasten your seatbelt and get into your old fridges… we’re going to crash and blow things up!

And init:stop/0 is…

The same as stop(0).

All applications are taken down smoothly, all code is unloaded, and all ports are closed before the system terminates by calling halt(Status). If command-line flag -heart was specified, the heartprogram is terminated before the Erlang node terminates. For more information, see heart(3).

To limit the shutdown time, the time init is allowed to spend taking down applications, command-line flag -shutdown_time is to be used.