# Debugging obscure process crashes?

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** erlang, beam, phoenix, testing, troubleshooting, learning-elixir, debug\
**Created:** [May 4, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/debugging-obscure-process-crashes/47564 "2022-05-04T05:47:50Z")\
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I’m throwing a dart in the dark here, but I’ve been bitte by HttPoison/hackney pools before, where if the request crashes it doesn’t release the connection, starving the pool in a short time.

Try setting `pool: false` and see if that helps maybe?

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