Java very limited on max number of threads?

Question

We have a small text box with 512Mb of ram. We wanted to see how many threads we can create in Java in this box. To our surprise, we can\'t create many. Essentially the minimum

Answer 1

It's not the programming language, it's on the operating system level.

More reading about it, for Windows:

• Does Windows have a limit of 2000 threads per process?
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads (by Mark Russinovich)