Subj : Re: pthread_create and memory
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Hopwood
Date : Sat Mar 12 2005 07:41 am

David Schwartz wrote:
> "Giorgio Spinazzola" <urmeteng@tiscali.it> wrote:
> 
>>I done this simplex  test:and work fine.
>>The only problem is that after each new thread the memory of my process in
>>increased of 10 MB !!! Why ??
> 
>     Why do you care? That's *virtual* memory, which should not be a scarce 
> resource.

Unless you have a 64-bit machine, virtual memory *is* a scarce resource.
This is one of the things (only one) that prevents kernel threads from
scaling beyond a few thousand per process on a 32-bit machine or OS.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk>

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