On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:14:46PM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net wrote:
> > >> You can of course create more than one.
> > 
> > >and each thread creates new process.
> >  
> > Perhaps but they all share the same memory space (no IPC required for
> > trivial tasks)so what's the problem exactly ? 
> > 
> that you can't have more than 4090 processes in linux. and other that
> linux handles lots of processes terribly slow.

For 2.2 kernels, you are too high, the limit without changes was 
set to 1024 processes, though I'm not 100% sure on that.

The new Linux kernels has a scalable process limit, adjustable at runtime.
Your total number of processes is limited by how much memory you have.

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