Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max issues | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:18:00 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:56, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Hi, > > I tried creating 100,000 threads just for the hell of it. I was > surprised that it appears to have worked even with pid_max set at 32k.
there are a lot of other reasons why you can't go over 64k threads ;) (esp on a 32 bit machine)
such as all the 16 bit counters in rwsems etc etc... Just Say No(tm) :)
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