Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030408AbWHOR7j (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030417AbWHOR7j (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:39 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.231]:34425 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030408AbWHOR7j (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:59:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=qaF+8kAEA6BAsZs9mQ1bCMr55qZiZtWmMvkWveLqepqM8fniyDatC7NVA8Khj7F7S1dKRxONgauZ2U6txEbTlgkXdlPLe7EaMsCtXoQGvalGMXW8S9jf5EiIYUDTUfOM1nbfiIOLlZkkhH+NtcTWKY2dA5bCG+cDkIOxUkPS4SM= Message-ID: <3420082f0608151059s40373a0bg4a1af3618c2b1a05@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:59:37 +0500 From: "Irfan Habib" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Maximum number of processes in Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 495 Lines: 14 Hi, What is the maximum number of process which can run simultaneously in linux? I need to create an application which requires 40,000 threads. I was testing with far fewer numbers than that, I was getting exceptions in pthread_create Regards Irfan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/