Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: kcooley@teknowledge.com (Keith Cooley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Wanted: experiences using many lightweight processes Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1737@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 27 Sep 89 00:31:48 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 12 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 139, message 9 of 11 I am planning an application that will involve hundreds of lightweight processes, possibly thousands. I would like to know beforehand if there are any limits to the number of lightweight processes that can be created, and what problems I might run into. Now I presume that because stack allocation is dynamic there are no limits there but I might run into performance problems with context switching of threads as the number grows. I don't know. I would welcome any experiences people have had with building programs involving more than 10 threads/lightweight processes. Keith Cooley Cimflex Teknowledge kcooley@Teknowledge.com