> pth_str02 test (simple test that tries to create 1000 threads) could only
> make it up to 980 threads on my machine. Saw this change in fork.c with
> 2.4.7-ac1:
>
> - max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 2;
> + max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 16;
>
> Any reason why this was done? I think the max I was ever able to hit before
> was somewhere around 1018 or so, so it's not that big of a drop. I was just
Im just playing with better choices of parameters to be more conservative
about thread allocations
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