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Commit 0ec62afe authored by Heinrich Schuchardt's avatar Heinrich Schuchardt Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Doc/sysctl/kernel.txt: document threads-max 



File /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max controls the maximum number of threads
that can be created using fork().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Guenter]
Signed-off-by: default avatarHeinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 16db3d3f

Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt

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threads-max



This value controls the maximum number of threads that can be created

using fork().



During initialization the kernel sets this value such that even if the

maximum number of threads is created, the thread structures occupy only

a part (1/8th) of the available RAM pages.



The minimum value that can be written to threads-max is 20.

The maximum value that can be written to threads-max is given by the

constant FUTEX_TID_MASK (0x3fffffff).

If a value outside of this range is written to threads-max an error

EINVAL occurs.



The value written is checked against the available RAM pages. If the

thread structures would occupy too much (more than 1/8th) of the

available RAM pages threads-max is reduced accordingly.



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unknown_nmi_panic:

unknown_nmi_panic:





The value in this file affects behavior of handling NMI. When the

The value in this file affects behavior of handling NMI. When the