Re: [pthreads-devel] Per Process Thread Limit

Do you know what kernels/distributions/patches with this work with?

Aron

Howell, David P wrote:
> This is limited by the virtual memory space. I've spawned 27K threads with 
> 'test_str02 -l' on my Linux box with 1G memory and 128M swap. 
> 
> The tunables to lower the thread stack size can extend this, default is 64K;
> if you can safely lower it for your threads it gives more space, I've used 
> 16K before for a high thread count process that needed more threads. Use the
> 'export DEFAULTTHREADSTACKSIZE=16' for 16K default thread stacks, or use the
> pthread_attr_stacksize() attribute for the threads.
> 
> Dave Howell
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aron Rubin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: [email protected];
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> Subject: [pthreads-devel] Per Process Thread Limit
> 
> 
> Does NGPT allow for a higher per process thread limit. Right now it 
> seems the highest number of threads possible per process is 1024.
> 
> Aron
> 
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