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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2012-10-31 23:31:50 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2012-12-03 21:18:07 +0100
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Improve configuration of process and port tables
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@@ -123,12 +123,11 @@ On 64-bit architectures: 4 words for a reference from the current local node, an
<tag><em>Processes</em></tag>
<item>
<p>The maximum number of simultaneously alive Erlang processes is
- by default 32768. This limit can be raised up to at most 268435456
- processes at startup (see documentation of the system flag
- <seealso marker="erts:erl#max_processes">+P</seealso> in the
- <seealso marker="erts:erl">erl(1)</seealso> documentation).
- The maximum limit of 268435456 processes will at least on a 32-bit
- architecture be impossible to reach due to memory shortage.</p>
+ by default 32768. This limit can be configured at startup,
+ for more information see the
+ <seealso marker="erts:erl#max_processes"><c>+P</c></seealso>
+ command line flag of
+ <seealso marker="erts:erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>.</p>
</item>
<tag><em>Distributed nodes</em></tag>
<item>
@@ -184,13 +183,12 @@ On 64-bit architectures: 4 words for a reference from the current local node, an
<tag><em>Open ports</em></tag>
<item>
<marker id="ports"></marker>
- <p>The maximum number of simultaneously open Erlang ports is
- by default 1024. This limit can be raised up to at most 268435456
- at startup (see environment variable
- <seealso marker="erts:erlang#ERL_MAX_PORTS">ERL_MAX_PORTS</seealso>
- in <seealso marker="erts:erlang">erlang(3)</seealso>)
- The maximum limit of 268435456 open ports will at least on a 32-bit
- architecture be impossible to reach due to memory shortage.</p>
+ <p>The maximum number of simultaneously oper Erlang ports is
+ often by default 16384. This limit can be configured at startup,
+ for more information see the
+ <seealso marker="erts:erl#max_ports"><c>+Q</c></seealso>
+ command line flag of
+ <seealso marker="erts:erl"><c>erl(1)</c></seealso>.</p>
</item>
<tag><em>Open files, and sockets</em></tag>
<item> <marker id="files_sockets"></marker>