Re: [RFC 00/10] Reclaimable kernel stacks

From: Peter Zijlstra

Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 10:39:30 EST


On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:47:58 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > On Android, system processes typically have 2000-3000 threads. App
> > > processes add 1000s more threads on top of this.
> >
> > WTF ?!? Why does that all spawn *that* many threads? Perhaps work on
> > reducing that some?
>
> I guess you never ran Java ;-)

Of course not; why would you want to do something that silly ;-)