[Gllug] Max number of pthreads in Linux ?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sat, March 29, 2008 14:32, Progga wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:44:08PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>>
>> Threads strike me as one of those ideas that's really great where
>> necessary (e.g. when sharing is unavoidable, e.g. in kernel space) and
>> otherwise really silly.
>
> But don't they save memory space even on Unices?
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I'm pretty sure they do - plus startup time is much quicker, shared memory
is done much easier, communication is simpler, locking can be done through
mutexes, etc.

However, in the case I was looking at for a potential client, I can so far
see no reason to use threads as opposed to a single process. I think the
client is under the impression that running with 10,000 threads will make
the program run 10,000 times faster...

Cheers,
Gabriel.
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