[erlang-questions] number of modules limit?

Xavier Noria fxn@REDACTED
Sun May 7 22:14:21 CEST 2017


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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