> 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 ;-)
One thing to note here, using pthreads there is a limit of 1024
threads per process. There are patches to glibc to increase this
to a larger number (4096 or 8192).
Regards
James Bourne
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