Re: Linux 2.4.7-ac1

[Alan Cox]

> 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