Java thread stack size on 64-bit linux

java linux multithreading jvm stack-size
Gaurav picture Gaurav · Aug 3, 2011 · Viewed 20.3k times · Source

My goal is to come up with figure of max threads which can run in parallel. I was pointed to many links by Google, where they give simple math by dividing the RAM/StackSize. In 64 bit Linux, we have thread stack size defined as 10 MB(ulimit -s = 10240kb) and RAM was 4GB, leaving 1 GB for OS and going with this math I can have ~300 threads or so but small test application which I wrote goes upto ~32297 and then gives out of memory error.

I tried different values with -Xss but these values hardly have any effect on thread count, it remains same as ~32297).

This gave me an impression that stack size is variable and decided by OS and goes upto max defined by us whenever needed, but wherever I read, they size stack size is static

What exactly I'm missing here?

Answer

a-- picture a-- · Aug 3, 2011

Try checking/changing linux maximum stack size using

ulimit -s

Also check for linux threads limit

cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max

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