In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>When designing a threaded application, is there a pratical limit on the
>number of threads that one should use or is there a way to set it up so
>that the OS handles the number of threads automatically? I am developing
>on 32-bit x86 Intel systems with python 2.4.1. The OS will be Linux and
>Windows.
The practical limit is somewhere between five and a hundred threads,
depending on what you're doing. The more I/O you're doing, the more
greater numbers of threads will benefit you.
>I have an older app that used to work fine (254 threads) on early 2.3
>Pythons, but now, I get this error with 2.4.1 and 2.3.5:
>
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "net_queue_and_threads.py", line 124, in ?
> thread.start()
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 416, in start
> _start_new_thread(self.__bootstrap, ())
>thread.error: can't start new thread
That's rather odd. Which OS is this? Did you build Python yourself or
did you download it?
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