In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >When designing a threaded application, is there a pratical limit on the >number of threads that one should use or is there a way to set it up so >that the OS handles the number of threads automatically? I am developing >on 32-bit x86 Intel systems with python 2.4.1. The OS will be Linux and >Windows.
The practical limit is somewhere between five and a hundred threads, depending on what you're doing. The more I/O you're doing, the more greater numbers of threads will benefit you. >I have an older app that used to work fine (254 threads) on early 2.3 >Pythons, but now, I get this error with 2.4.1 and 2.3.5: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "net_queue_and_threads.py", line 124, in ? > thread.start() > File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 416, in start > _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ()) >thread.error: can't start new thread That's rather odd. Which OS is this? Did you build Python yourself or did you download it? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx prgrmmng. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
