[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i modified my C test program (included below) to explicitly set the > default thread stack size, and i'm still running into the same > problem. can you think of any other thing that would possibly be > limiting me?
Hrm, you're on an A64, so that might very well mean you're dealing with 4MB pages. If each thread gets its own page of memory for stack space regardless of how small you've set it, then ~1k threads * 4MB ~= 4GB of virtual memory. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list