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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac1
To: plars@austin.ibm.com (Paul Larson)
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:47:52 +0100 (BST)
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> pth_str02 test (simple test that tries to create 1000 threads) could only 
> make it up to 980 threads on my machine.  Saw this change in fork.c with 
> 2.4.7-ac1:
> 
> -       max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 2;
> +       max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 16;
> 
> Any reason why this was done?  I think the max I was ever able to hit before 
> was somewhere around 1018 or so, so it's not that big of a drop.  I was just 

Im just playing with better choices of parameters to be more conservative
about thread allocations

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