On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Suppose you somehow managed to create 9223372036854775807 threads. If your > computer has 16 GB of RAM available, that means that at most each thread > can use: > > py> 16*1024*1024*1024/9223372036854775807 > 1.862645149230957e-09 > > bytes.
Doesn't that calculation assume that they all have to be alive at the same time? (Maybe I missed it in earlier posts, but I don't think the OP indicated they'd have to all be active.) That said, I think the OP should probably be worrying about other ways his program could fail besides overflowing some nonexistent max thread id. :-) Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
