On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, danch wrote:

> It's not especially computation intensive, but it is resource intensive:
> it consumes a process table entry. Each user is allowed only a certain
> number of process table entries, and the overall system has an upper limit.

This latter point is no longer true, in 2.4.

> Also, more threads will load the OS scheduler more. If they're idle it
> isn't as bad as if they're active, but it will/may consume time
> depending on the scheduling algorythm.

More runnable threads.  Sleeping threads come for free.




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