<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hi all,<div>I use "erl +t 9000" to set the maximum number of atoms to 9000, then I call erlang:list_to_atom/1 to create atoms, and check the system info:</div><div><div>15> string:tokens(binary_to_list(erlang:system_info(info)),"\n").</div><div>["=memory","total: 49094720","processes: 33358002",</div><div> "processes_used: 33358002","system: 15736718",</div><div> "atom: 223537","atom_used: 211133","binary: 1063848",</div><div> "code: 3739735","ets: 251248","=hash_table:atom_tab",</div><div> "size: 6421","used: 4906","objs: 9216","depth: 7",</div><div> "=index_table:atom_tab","size: 9216","limit: 9000",</div><div> "entries: 9216","=hash_table:module_code","size: 97",</div><div> "used: 57","objs: 76","depth: 3","=index_table:module_code",</div><div> "size: 1024","limit: 65536","entries: 76",</div><div> [...]|...]</div></div><div><br></div><div>Please look at the "=index_table:atom_tab<span style="line-height: 1.7;">" item, what do "size", "limit" and "entries" mean? why can the "size"(9216) larger than the "limit"(9000)?</span></div><div><span style="line-height: 1.7;">Thanks in advance!</span></div></span><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"></span></div></div><br><br><span title="neteasefooter"><span id="netease_mail_footer"></span></span>