> [ SNIP again.... ]
>
> For your information: Solaris pukes in processes with more than
> about 20000 concurrently active threads (I can repeatidly on a
> Enterprise 2 with 1GB ram get it to puke on thread no. 14287).
> Haven't figured out why yet, though....but it would be cool
> if the Linux version didn't have such constraints....
>
> - --thomas
>
> (ps: anyone has a clue or similar experiences?)
>
Every thread allocates virtual memory for stack. Default stack size on
Solaris is quiet big, so if you want to fireup *really* big number of
threads, you need to adjust your default stack size. Otherwise your
virtual memory gets exhausted pretty fast.
This phenomena made me a lots of trouble with my initial experimenting
with threads. :)
Hope it helps.
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