Lee Leahu wrote: > However, I have encountered the following error after I have started my 381st > thread:
This number (actually, ~380) is suspicious when seen with threads because it almost always means running out of process address space. As threads are part of a single process, and that process has (usually today) 32bit address space, and modern Linux systems allocate huge amounts of memory per-thread (8 MB for threads' stack!), and the kernel reserves ~1MB in the address space for itself, you can easily reach > 4GB of total allocated memory. This *doesn't* mean you are actually using 4GB of memory (i.e. storing values to it), only that the process gets "assigned" this memory. Python doesn't support specifying thread attributes AFAIK, so you should find a way to specify default thread stack size, possibly with an environment variable (see manual page for "pthread" library calls). Try 64k - your task seems simple enough :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list