Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > Indeed you are correct. The actual limit you are hitting is the size > of your address space. Each thread is allocated 8MB of stack. 382 > threads consumes about 3GB of address space. Even though most of this > memory isn't actually allocated, the address space is still used up. So, > when you try to create the 383rd thread, the kernel can't find anyplace > to put its stack. So you can't create it.
Interesting. That's why I can get over 3000 on my x86-64 machine... Much more address space. -- Jeremy Sanders http://www.jeremysanders.net/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
