[erlang-questions] number of modules limit?

Karlo Kuna kuna.prime@REDACTED
Mon May 8 13:09:30 CEST 2017


so anyone knows if this limit is per node? if it is then distributing
modules on different node would be great option.

On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Xavier Noria <fxn@REDACTED> wrote:

> Is the limit was per node, perhaps sharding them could be a workaround.
> (But I do not know if the premise holds.)
>
> On Sun, 7 May 2017 at 21:53, Karlo Kuna <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> permise is that all are used
>>
>> and i would rather have them already compiled then in funs but that is
>> one options
>>
>> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Gianfranco Alongi <
>> gianfranco.alongi@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> You could purge unused modules and just keep the minimum necessary set
>>> at all times?
>>> Otherwise create the needed functions during runtime as funs and keep
>>> them in an ets table?
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 7, 2017 20:33, "Karlo Kuna" <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>> oh wow this limit is rather small !!!
>>> are there any suggestions how to work around it ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 9:19 PM, Dániel Szoboszlay <dszoboszlay@REDACTED
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, there are limits for both the number of modules (65536) and the
>>>> number of exported functions (524288 = 8 functions/module for the maximum
>>>> number of modules).
>>>>
>>>> See erlang:system_info(info) for details, and in particular look for
>>>> the limits under the =index_table:module_code and
>>>> =index_table:export_list sections.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 7 May 2017 at 19:34 Karlo Kuna <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am currently working on app that has potential to contain large
>>>>> number of modules > 10 000
>>>>> these are mostly implementations of behaviours that are generated in
>>>>> runtime.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is, what is most modules you have encountered in
>>>>> production in running erlang application, and is there practical limit on
>>>>> number of number of modules in system??
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