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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:02:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: max number of threads on a system
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David Schwartz wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:05:39 -0500, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:
> >What limits the number of threads one can have on a Linux system?
>
> 	Common sense, one would hope.
>
> >I have a simple program that creates an array of threads and it locks up at
> >the creation of somewhere between 250 and 275 threads.

$ ulimit -u



- Davide


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