Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750704AbWHOVAf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:00:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750706AbWHOVAf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:00:35 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:59796 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750704AbWHOVAf (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:00:35 -0400 Message-Id: <200608152100.k7FL0WrU015381@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Irfan Habib Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:59:37 +0500." <3420082f0608151059s40373a0bg4a1af3618c2b1a05@mail.gmail.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3420082f0608151059s40373a0bg4a1af3618c2b1a05@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1155675632_3681P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:00:32 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1155675632_3681P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:59:37 +0500, Irfan Habib said: > 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 There's some a<