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| Date | 2014-09-11 20:38 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? |
| From | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.13951.1410485934.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote: > Suppose you somehow managed to create 9223372036854775807 threads. If your > computer has 16 GB of RAM available, that means that at most each thread > can use: > > py> 16*1024*1024*1024/9223372036854775807 > 1.862645149230957e-09 > > bytes. Doesn't that calculation assume that they all have to be alive at the same time? (Maybe I missed it in earlier posts, but I don't think the OP indicated they'd have to all be active.) That said, I think the OP should probably be worrying about other ways his program could fail besides overflowing some nonexistent max thread id. :-) Skip
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Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-11 23:32 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-12 11:29 +1000
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 11:49 +1000
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-09-11 20:38 -0500
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-09-12 13:41 +1000
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 15:41 +1000
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-12 08:30 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2014-09-13 08:56 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-09-13 09:48 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Martin Skjöldebrand <shieldfire@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 12:09 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2014-09-13 12:32 +0200
Re: Thread-ID - how much could be? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2014-09-16 10:53 +0200
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