maximum number of threads

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Fri Jan 12 00:16:25 EST 2007


 "William Heymann" <kosh at aesaeion.com> wrote:


> 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
> 

This almost looks as if the number of threads is a sixteen bit signed int... 

- Hendrik




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