> 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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