[ros-dev] TEB spacing

Ge van Geldorp gvg at reactos.com
Fri Oct 1 23:45:57 CEST 2004


> From: Ge van Geldorp
> 
> > From: Hartmut Birr
> > 
> > this patch (or some areas in ntoskrnl) isn't correct. This
> > patch puts always 64kB between the TEB's. This limits the 
> > number of threads to 30,000 or less. I've found this by an 
> > other bug in kernel32.
> 
> Yes, you're right, that is an unwanted side effect. I think 
> I'll change the TEB allocation to reserve 64k at a time and 
> then commit 4k for each TEB, so we can have TEBs spaced 
> tightly together again.

This is now implemented. I've successfully created and destroyed 600000
threads in a single process, so we should be ok I guess.

Ge van Geldorp.



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