[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-420720 ] Starting many threads causes core dump

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Bugs item #420720, was updated on 2001-05-02 07:09
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Category: Threads
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 4
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Starting many threads causes core dump

Initial Comment:
If I start more than 1020 threads simultaneously, using
the threading module, Python 2.1 causes segmentation
faults, or will not exit, under Linux. I have not
tested this on Windows.

I don't know whether the problems are caused by the
threads themselves, or the threading.Event for which
they are waiting.

I have attached a program threadKill3.py which
demonstrates this (including sample runs and output).


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>Comment By: Jeremy Hylton (jhylton)
Date: 2001-05-09 08:53

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We need two things in order to offer any useful help:
1. A stack trace from the core file.
2. Evidence that a C program that starts 1024 threads
   won't do the same thing.


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