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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, David Xu wrote:
> From: "Daniel Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>
> > 
> > Can we make this work so that we are not limited to
> > 8192 (or whatever max user LDTs are) threads on i386?
> > 
> 
> I think giving 8192 system scope thread limit on i386
> might be OK. system might freeze before you reach this
> limit, better to use M:N thread. :-)

No, I was worred that we would have to use the same
approach for every arch (tp -> thread).  That would
limit us to 8192 threads in i386 regardless of scope.
Julian implied this doesn't have to be the case, though.

-- 
Dan Eischen