[erlang-questions] How big can be number of ets tables?

[Sverker Eriksson]

Max Lapshin wrote:
> Erlang VM has option to limit number of ets tables.
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> What bad will happen, if I set it to 65536?
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Static meta-tables are allocated at emulator start.
Currently (R14B03) no more than (ERL_MAX_ETS_TABLES * 3) words are 
allocated.
A word is either 4 or 8 bytes depending on type of OS process.

/Sverker, Erlang/OTP