[Bioc-devel] Help for Error "Maximal Number of DLLs reached..."

[Henrik Bengtsson]

A few quick comments:

* I don't think the limit was hardened in R 3.4.0; maybe you started to
experience it sound then because more dependent packages started to rely on
more DLLs?

* The limit is OS/platform specific so it's not that R core is unwilling to
fix this - I think they havejust tried to find a safe limit that work
everywhere. Having said this...

* It'll be less restrictive by default in R 3.5.0: from it's NEWS "The
maximum number of DLLs that can be loaded into R e.g. via dyn.load() has
been increased up to 614 when the OS limit on the number of open files
allows"

* R.utils::gcDLLs() will attempt to unregister possibly stray DLLs
remaining after unloading packages. So unloading packages and gcDLLs() may
provide you with a workaround until R 3.5.0 is in place (possibly also even
after).

See https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R/issues/29 for
"random" notes and references to this problem.


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 04:10 Yuan Tian <tianyuan1991hit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Guys:
>
> I encountered an error like "maximal number of dlls reached...". I am
> maintaining ChAMP package now, which integrated many other packages in my
> research field. I have not updated this package in past 2 months but
> suddenly this error happens.
>
> Currently, I think I know the reason is since R 3.4.X, numbers of DLLs in
> default R session was set 100. I have tested that using a newly started R
> 3.4.4 to install and load ChAMP package, *it works smoothly*, after
> loading, I checked DLL loaded with function getLoadedDLLs(), then I see
> ChAMP used 95 Dlls. I know it's a lot, but some of them are loaded by
> ChAMP's relying packages but itself. *However, ChAMP cannot pass
> Bioconductor check, thus I suspect Bioconductor checking system does NOT
> start a new R session for each package right? Which means it's not 100 DLLs
> allocated for each package?*
>
> Currently, I have told my users to modify R environment to allow their R
> session with more DLLs. It works but only on users computer, not
> Bioconductor checking system. Thus I think I have to reduce dlls used by
> current package right? Like removing some relying packages or function. *My
> another question is how many DLLs is allowed by Bioconductor check? I think
> it's less than 100. But I don't know I should cut it into 80 or 60 or even
> 50 dlls used.*
>
> It's really disappointing that I need to modify quite a lot of code, and
> even could hurt some key functionality of the package. Thus here I am
> seeking your help and suggestions here.
>
> Best
> Yuan Tian
>
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