Amount of threads per task?

[Bjoern Doebel]

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> When creating new threads within the L4Linux kernel, I "sometimes"
> (whatever that means) get the following output and error:
> 
> *l4lx    | l4lx_thread_create: Created thread 0e.1a (Command)
>     --Thread names exhausted!--------------------------------IP: 0050758e
> 
> What does that mean? After pressing "g", the system continues running.
> However when I try to kill the thread later, I get the following:
> 
>     --Unknown TID to delete thread name!---------------------IP: 0050760a
> 
> Is it not possible to create more than 0x19 = 25 threads within the L4Linux
> kernel? Or am I doing anything wrong?
> 

You don't make a mistake. The thread library has a default setting for the maximum number
of threads. You can increase this number by setting something like

const int l4thread_max_threads = 100;

in your application.

Bjoern
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