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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: max number of threads on a system
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Around 250 was the old limit for max user processes ( non root ), if i
remember well.



- Davide


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