From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: plars@austin.ibm.com (Paul Larson)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac1
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 18:47:52 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15PpEm-0004C2-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01072612421000.21482@plars.austin.ibm.com> from "Paul Larson" at Jul 26, 2001 12:42:10 PM
> pth_str02 test (simple test that tries to create 1000 threads) could only
> make it up to 980 threads on my machine. Saw this change in fork.c with
> 2.4.7-ac1:
>
> - max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 2;
> + max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 16;
>
> Any reason why this was done? I think the max I was ever able to hit before
> was somewhere around 1018 or so, so it's not that big of a drop. I was just
Im just playing with better choices of parameters to be more conservative
about thread allocations
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-26 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-26 12:42 Paul Larson
2001-07-26 17:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2001-07-26 18:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-26 13:21 Alan Cox
2001-07-26 14:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-07-26 16:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-27 7:46 ` Alexander Sokolov
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