How to create more than 2000 threads inlinux 2.4kernel

Hi
I am not able to create threads more than 255 in my linux machine(redhat 9,kernel 2.4). Anybody knows how to configure to get more than 2000 threads!!!!!

Personally I would not ask myself how to get 2000 threads, I would be asking:
Why do I need to 2000 threads?
Will I gain anything from having this many threads?
Will all the thread swapping nearly kill my machine?

As for the answer to your question, I'm sorry I don't know.

I agree with dmail. Why do you need 2000 threads? Do you have the resources (Memory, CPU, etc..) to support that many threads?

Yes indeed, let's do the math...

Suppose that your machine has a 1 millisecond timer-quantum, which means that you get 1,000 of these puppies per second.

And you have 2,000 active threads.

Worst case, every one of them gets to execute for 1/1,000 of one second every two seconds.

Read my lips: you cannot create a "real world" server which depends upon "creating a thread for every request that it receives!" If you take this "flaming-arrow approach" in a real-world situation, you wind up with a bonfire.

it's a funny old world

The linux kernel 2.4 supports 8192 threads per processor.

On the 2.6 NPT, linux uses this:
typedef unsigned long int pthread_t

So you have quite a lot..

But if you use this number of threads, your cpu will be terribly slow. At least use the 2.6 which has a better performance when using a lot of thread.