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closer at how message passing works later in this chapter.

The fields `priority`, `suspending`, `reductions`, `links`,
`trap_exit`, `error_handler`, and `group_leader` controls the process
`trap_exit`, `error_handler`, and `group_leader` control the process
execution, error handling, and IO. We will look into this a bit more
when we introduce the _Observer_.

The last few fields (`dictionary`, `total_heap_size`, `heap_size`,
`stack_size`, and `garbage_collection`) gives us information about the
process memory usage and we will look at the process memory areas in
`stack_size`, and `garbage_collection`) give us information about the
process memory usage. We will look at the process memory areas in
detail in this chapter in <ref linkend="ch.memory"/>.

Another, even more intrusive way of getting information
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See the documentation of the module `erlang` for
a full description of the information available with
[`process_info`.](http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#process_info-1)

[`process_info`](http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#process_info-1).

==== Using the Observer to Inspect Processes

A third way of examining processes is with the
[_Observer_.](http://erlang.org/doc/apps/observer/observer_ug.html)
[_Observer_](http://erlang.org/doc/apps/observer/observer_ug.html).
The Observer is an extensive graphical interface for inspecting
the Erlang RunTime System. We will use the Observer throughout
this book to examine different aspects of the system.
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