I am using boost to create several threads. Redhat Linux has a limit of 256 threads per process at a time. Even though my threads are exiting, I am unable to create more than 255 threads.

In the past when I used pthread_create (which I assume boost is using internally), I had to create the thread "detached" or the resources would never clean up and even if the thread exited I would never be able to create more than 255 threads.

I am assuming this is a similar problem, but do not see anywhere in the documentation on how to create the threads detached or how to detach them after creation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Brian

Use pthread_detach() to detach the thread. Resouces allocated to a detached thread is automatically deallocated once the thread terminates. A thread can be created initially in the detached state by setting attributes in pthread_create. see man pthread_detach for more info. use pthread_join() to free the resources.