Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe+thun...@gmail.com> writes: > If you are running on a 32-bit environment, it is common to run out > of address space with many threads. Each thread allocates a stack and > this allocation may be as large as 10 Megabytes on Linux.
I'm sure it's smaller than that under most circumstances. I run python programs with hundreds of threads all the time, and they don't use gigabytes of memory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list