How manny threads can be created in one process?

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Maximum number of threads per process in Linux?

just with some curiosity i am asking

How manny threads can be created in one process?

is there any limitation for that ?

How manny process can be created on one system ?

is there any limitation for that ?

I think this would be differ as per different OS. I am more concern for knowing this value for linux ...

Already asked, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/344203/maximum-number-of-threads-per-process-in-linux — Basile Starynkevitch, Nov 23 '11 at 15:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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you can use this:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

you can increase this by:

echo 100000 > /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Nov 23 '11 at 15:02

Stefan Koenen

This gives you total threads not per process threads limit ;) – codersofthedark Feb 09 '12 at 13:53
http://dustycodes.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/increasing-number-of-threads-per-process/ – codersofthedark Feb 09 '12 at 13:53

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