maximum number of threads

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Wednesday 10/1/2007 04:38, Paul Sijben wrote:

>I have a server in Python 2.5 that generates a lot of threads. It is
>running on a linux server (Fedora Core 6).
>The server quickly runs out of threads.
>
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/threading.py", line 434, in start
>     _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
>error: can't start new thread
>
>Does anyone know what it going on here and how I can ensure that I have
>all the threads I need?

Simply you can't, as you can't have 10000 open files at once. 
Computer resources are not infinite.
Do you really need so many threads? Above a certain threshold, the 
program total execution time may increase very quickly.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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