thread limit question

[Bryan Kate]

> Have you checked CHILD_MAX or whatever it's called? I think there's a 
> limit on the number of child processes that a single process can spawn. 
> It might even be hardcoded (in a #define) in one of the kernel headers. 
> If threads are still implemented as processes on Linux, then you'd be 
> hitting that limit, too.

havent checked this, but i actually think i was running into a stack
size per user process problem, not a process limit.  either way, 1024 is
more than enough for what i need, but i might look into increasing the
stack size anyway.

- bryan