Subj : Re: pthread_create and memory
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Sat Mar 12 2005 11:13 am


"David Hopwood" <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:A2xYd.47146$y25.322@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...

> 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.

    And the fact that you don't have a few thousand processors.

    DS

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