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Jul 29, 2005
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Does Windows have a limit of 2000 threads per process?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Often I see people asking why they can't create more than around 2000 threads in a process. The reason is not that there is any particular limit inherent in Windows. Rather, the programmer failed to take into account the amount of address space each thread uses. A thread consists of some memory in kernel mode (kernel stacks and object management),...

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