Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 22:30:00 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues |
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> there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;) > (esp on a 32 bit machine)
After all the effort of going to 4kB stacks on x86? :)
> such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc... > Just Say No(tm) :)
Hmm can you point the 16bit counter out? I can create 1 million NPTL threads on ppc64 easily, so why not?
As Ingo points out the same proc inode overflow happens with applications with lots of FDs.
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