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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:34:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, joeja@mindspring.com,
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Subject: Re: max number of threads on a system
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> 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

/proc/sys/kernel/threads-max is the system limit. And "locks up" is odd
unless the application is really poorly written to handle errors. Should
time out and whine ;-)

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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