Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:12:36 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Maximum number of processes in Linux |
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Irfan Habib wrote: > Hi, > > What is the maximum number of process which can run simultaneously in > linux? I need to create an application which requires 40,000 threads. > I was testing with far fewer numbers than that, I was getting > exceptions in pthread_create
What architecture is this? On a 32-bit architecture with a 2MB stack size (which I think is the default) you couldn't possibly create more than 2048 threads just because of stack space requirements. Reducing the stack size would get you more.
I should also point out that any design that requires 40,000 threads is probably quite flawed unless you are running on a very large machine..
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