title: Is the max thread limit actually a non-relevant issue for Python / Linux?
body: <p>The current Python application that I'm working on has a need to utilize 1000+ threads (Pythons threading module).  Not that any single thread is working at max cpu cycles, this is just a web server load test app I'm creating.  I.E.  emulate 200 firefox clients all longing into web server and downloading small web components, basically emulating humans that operate in seconds as opposed to microseconds.  </p>
  
  <p>So, I was reading through the various topics such as "how many threads does python support on Linux / windows, etc, and I saw a lot of varied answers.  One users said its all about memory and the Linux kernel by default only sets aside 8Meg for threads, if it exceeds that then threads start being killed by the Kernel.  </p>
  
  <p>One guy stated this is a non issue for CPython because only 1 thread is running at a time anyway (because of the GIL) so we can specify a gazillion threads???  What's the actual truth on this?  </p>