Re: [Boost-users] Thread Group fails to run

From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-24 11:56:00

Apostolos Apostolidis wrote:
> I have checked both variables and set them way beyond 400. Nothing 
> changed and I keep getting the same error.

At the risk of sounding foolish -- I do not know these variables -- I 
wonder whether their function is merely to report the capability of the 
host system, rather than to allow overriding it?

> Note that this also happens if I spawn POSIX threads from a C program. 

That's actually good news. Since it's not a Boost-specific issue, you 
can ask in a list where you're more likely to find thread gurus.

> On 23/10/2007, *Sohail Somani* <s.somani_at_[hidden] 
> <mailto:s.somani_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, 2007-22-10 at 09:51 +0100, Apostolos Apostolidis wrote:
>      > Hi all. I have developed some code allowing a thread group of 500
>      > threads to run.
>      > However, as soon as the 381st thread is spawned, I get the following
>      > runtime error :
>      >
> 
>     I think you want to take a look at _POSIX_THREAD_THREADS_MAX or
>     PTHREADS_THREADS_MAX. One of the two (I forget which) dictates what you
>     are guaranteed to be able to do.