Re: lwp resource limit

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 24,  6:55am, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lwp resource limit

| hi,
| 
| > Hello,
| > 
| > This is a new resource limit to prevent users from exhausting kernel
| > resources that lwps use.
| > 
| > - The limit is per uid
| > - The default is 1024 per user unless the architecture overrides it
| > - The kernel is never prohibited from creating threads
| > - Exceeding the thread limit does not prevent process creation, but
| >   it will prevent processes from creating additional threads. So the
| >   effective thread limit is nlwp + nproc
| > - The name NTHR was chosen to follow prior art
| 
| can you provide a pointer to the prior art?
| is it API compatible?

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/native/reference/com.qnx.doc.neutrino.lib_ref/topic/g/getrlimit.html

christos