thread limit in python

Bryan Olson fakeaddress at nowhere.org
Thu Aug 11 21:54:13 EDT 2005


danieldsmith at gmail.com wrote:
 > disregard the C example.  wasn't checking the return code of
 > pthread_create.  the C program breaks in the same place, when creating
 > the 1021st thread.

So that's pretty good evidence that it's an OS limit, not a
Python limit. The most likely problem is that the stack size is
too large, so you're running out of virtual address space.


-- 
--Bryan



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