maximum number of threads

[William Heymann]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 7:11 am, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
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> $ python test.py
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> Exception raised: can't start new thread
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> Biggest number of threads: 382
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> The test.py script is attached.

So you know I tried this on ubuntu edgy 64bit edition on a dual 2218 opteron 
system with 8G of ram and I got

<lots of output>
Exception raised: can't start new thread
Biggest number of threads: 32274