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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 22:19:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: RE: Re: max number of threads on a system
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, joeja@mindspring.com wrote:

> It would seem that the functionality and behavior of threads on Sun is
> different from that of Linux. 

You probably want to try NGPT, kernel 2.4.19-pre3 and later have the
kernel patches, and the new library is available from IBM. I don't know
about the limits, but the overall functionality should be closer.

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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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