more than 2k threads with -lpthread or -lthr

[David Xu]

Marc Olzheim wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 06:52:20PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
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>>Both libpthread and libthr use 1M bytes stack on 32bits platform
>>and 2M bytes stack on 64bits platform. I think 2k threads needs
>>2G stack on i386, this is too large.
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>In which case pthread_attr_setstacksize() might help ?
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>Marc
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pthread_attr_setstacksize definitively helps, libc_r default uses 64k
stack for thread, this is very small stack.

Here two sysctl also have to tuned to numbers larger than 2000 for
libthr and libpthread:
kern.threads.max_groups_per_proc
kern.threads.max_threads_per_proc

David Xu