pthreads：在Redhat 6.8下不能生成超过70个

Question

这可能是一个设置相关的问题。

问题：无法在我们的公共Redhat环境中生成超过70个pthreads。期望是几千。

/*
File: pthreadDemo2.c
Course: CENG320
Author: Prof. Leon King,J230,x4200
Date: Friday Jun 16, 2017   14:26 PM

In this demo we list the status of threads and selectively cancel them.
The commands are:  list  (list)
kill  #  kill a thread by number
inc      have threads increment the counter
INC   #  increment a specific counter  
quit     end the program
show     show the counter

Compile with the thread library -pthread
See also:  http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPosixThreads.html
 */


#include <pthread.h>
#include <bits/local_lim.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
/* We have no predefined limit on the number of threads.  */
#define NUMBER_OF_THREADS 4000 

pthread_mutex_t mutex=PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; //Warning! This is a shared global variable!
long counter=0;

void incrementCounter(int signum)
{
    //pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex); 
    int c2;
    c2=counter;
    c2=c2+1;
    counter=c2;
    //fprintf(stdout,"Changing a counter\n"); 
    /*FILE *log=fopen("threadSafeLog.dat","a");
      fprintf(log,"Logging event for thread %u\n",(int) pthread_self()); 
      fprintf(log,"Logging event 2nd write for thread %u\n",(int) pthread_self()); 
      fclose(log);
     */
    //pthread_mutex_unlock(&mutex);
}

void *threadProcedure(void * arg)
{
    int myThreadInfo=(long) arg,
    threadID=pthread_self();
    while(1) pause();  
    pthread_exit(0);  //calling exit() would end all threads & main

}

int main(int argc, char * argv[],char * envp[])
{
    pthread_t threadList[NUMBER_OF_THREADS]={0};
    char cmd[20];

    pthread_mutex_init(&mutex,NULL); 
    pthread_attr_t threadAttributes; 
    pthread_attr_init(&threadAttributes);

    int err1=pthread_attr_setstacksize(&threadAttributes, 16384);
    if(err1) fprintf(stdout,"Error in setting the stack size: %d\n", err1);

    signal(SIGUSR1,incrementCounter);  
    fprintf(stdout,"Hello World. I'm %d\n",(int) getpid()); 
    //
    //Spawn a group of threads
    //THIS IS THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM
    //IT CAN GENERATE OVER 6K threads on a Ubuntu 15.04 Release
    //BUT only 70 threads on Redhat 5.11 and 6.8 Enterprise
    //The focus question is: How does one increase the limit on the number of threads in Redhat 
    for(int i=0;i<NUMBER_OF_THREADS;i++) 
    {
    if(!pthread_create(&threadList[i],&threadAttributes,threadProcedure,(void *)i))
        {
            pthread_detach(threadList[i]); 
         }
     else   perror("Failure to create a thread");

    }

    while(1)
    {
        fprintf(stdout,"Commands: list, show, increment, quit\n");
    fscanf(stdin,"%s",cmd);
    switch(cmd[0])
    {

        case 'l': for(int i=0;i<NUMBER_OF_THREADS;i++)
              fprintf(stdout,"thread id of threadlist[%d]: %u\n",i,(int) threadList[i]); 
              break;

        case 's':  fprintf(stdout,"Counter value: %lu\n",counter);
               break;

               break;

        case 'i': fprintf(stdout,"Initial value of counter: %lu\n",counter);     
              for(int i=0;i<100;i++)
              {
                  int error= pthread_kill(threadList[i],SIGUSR1);
                  if(error) {perror("Failed signal"); errno=0;}

              }
              fprintf(stdout,"Final value of Counter? %lu\n",counter);  
              break;

        case 'q':  exit(0); 

    }

    }

    return 0;

}

Answer 1

是的，在linux下，线程和进程的处理非常相似。

如果您将进程限制设置为75，这实际上是对用户所有进程的线程总数的限制。所以这是按照它的设计工作的。

进程数的限制可以通过ulimit命令或通过setrlimit（）系统调用应用的/etc/limits.conf文档设置

RLIMIT_NPROC这是可以为调用进程的真实用户ID创建的最大进程数（或者更准确地说，在Linux上是线程数）。