Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:10:49 +0100 | From | Peter Wächtler <> | Subject | Re: max number of threads on a system |
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Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, James Bourne wrote: > > >>One thing to note here, using pthreads there is a limit of 1024 >>threads per process. There are patches to glibc to increase this >>to a larger number (4096 or 8192). >> > > Haven't checked to see the limit in NGPT, but I haven't hit it ;-) >
There is another limit creeping in: pthread mmap()s 2 MB of stack for each thread. So you run out of address space on 32 bit systems with threads > 1024 (and smaller)
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