hello all, i have run into a problem where i cannot start more than 1021 threads in a python program, no matter what my ulimit or kernel settings are. my program crashes with 'thread.error: can't start new thread' when it tries to start the 1021st thread.
in addition to tweaking my ulimit settings, i have also verified that the version of glibc i'm using has PTHREAD_THREADS_MAX defined to be 16374. i have posted my test program below as well as the ulimit settings i was running it with. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance, dan smith <program> import os import sys import time import threading num_threads = int(sys.argv[1]) def run (): # just sleep time.sleep(10000) for i in range(1,num_threads+1): print 'starting thread %d' %i t=threading.Thread (None, run) t.start() os._exit(1) </program> <ulimit -a> core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 4 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1000000 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) unlimited cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) unlimited virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited </ulimit -a> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
