Re: How do I increase threads per user?

["Earle R. Nietzel" <nietzel@rhinobox.org>]

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 17:14, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: 
> I compiled and ran the code you submitted below. All it does is count up
> the number of threads that it has created:
> 
>    [160000+ lines of output deleted for brevity's sake]
>    Time's up!
>    Thread #85321 scheduled.
>    Time's up!
>    Thread #85322 scheduled.
>    Time's up!
>    Thread #85323 scheduled.
>    Time's up!
>    Thread #85324 scheduled.
>    Time's up!
>    Thread #85325 scheduled.
>    ^C                     <-- I got bored here
> 
> Perhaps you intended to have something other than 0 as the argument to
> the constructor of Reminder. Using 30, I can create ~1400 threads before
> the VM crashes (Red Hat 8.0, 2.4.18-27smp, glibc 2.2.93cw, Sun Java
> 1.4.1_02).


Using 30 I created ~3660 threads before the VM crashed with an
OutOfMemory exception (RedHat 9, 2.4.20-9smp, Sun Java 1.4.1_02).

Remember you also have to think about how the kernel splits up memory
for user space and kernel space, I don't know how java implements its
thread environment so I can't speak intelligently on the subject.

-- 
Earle R. Nietzel <nietzel@rhinobox.org>