Thread limits?

[Quasimodo]

Hi,

I've been lurking on this group for a week and it seems like some
interesting discussions take place here.  I look forward to you posting your
questions - a great way for everyone to learn.

> >Is there a theoretical limit to the maximum number of threads that can be
> >spawned?
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> Yes, 2^32-1.

Obviously that's not going to be my problem then  ;-)


"Makhno" <mak at imakhno.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8nogjh$ld8$2 at news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> >Pretty new to Python, and was messing about with multi-threading (also
> >new).
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> I too have lots of questions about python threads, which I might get round
> to posting soon.
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> >Is there a theoretical limit to the maximum number of threads that can be
> >spawned?
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> Yes, 2^32-1.
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> >My machine (450MHz PIII, 320Mb RAM, Win98SE) tends to do it's dead-ant
> >impersonation at around 1,000 threads created.
>
> Windows 98 can bearly manage more than one thread, and 1000 threads is far
> too much for anything but the latest most expensive multithread server-end
> machine. Rethink your problem.
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