Added ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE environment variable
Julien Barbot
klyr@REDACTED
Tue Dec 22 12:17:54 CET 2009
Hello,
Actually atom table size is an hard-coded value of 1048576 (1024*1024).
I thought it would be a good idea to make this limitation more dynamic
by adding an environment variable to increase this limit.
It is quite the same behavior as the ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES env variable.
The new variable is called ERL_ATOM_TABLE_SIZE.
I know that increasing this value should be the last resort when faced
with an atom number limitation. A better way of solving this kind of
problem is of course to correct the design of the faulty application.
The simple patch is available at:
git fetch git://github.com/klyr/otp.git atom_table_size_env
Regards,
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Julien Barbot
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