Re: Having problems starting ~10k worker threads in apache

>> Our current implementation uses 3500 threads.  This not enough due to
>> increased growth.  We need a short term solution.  The maximum of 7k
>> seems to be my upper limit and may suffice.  I was hoping that there
>> were ways to increase it beyond that.
>
> You might try the hugemem kernel if you're on i386 platform.  As other
> discussions have shown, the standard i386 platform can be starved of
> LowMem on occassion.  I don't know if the Apache threads are using up
> all your LowMem or not, but if they are, hugemem might help you get to
> 10K threads.

  Also on RHEL3 each thread allocates "ulimit -s" amount of memory for 
stack. You can try to lower that number and try then.

  Mindaugas

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