Menu
I want to know if there is a maximum number of threads that it is possible to run on an Android device. It depends on the type of the device?
788
That is 8 threads to everything the phone does--all android features, texting, memory management, Java, and any other apps that are running. You say it is limited to 128, but realistically it is limited functionally to much less for you to use than that.
pid_max value of 131072 above means the kernel can execute a maximum of 131,072 processes simultaneously.
Concurrency means running multiple tasks in parallel, it is one of the main reasons that we use threads. As Android is a single-threaded model, we need to create different threads to perform our task and post the result to the main thread where the UI gets updated.
Developers multithread Android applications in order to improve their performance and usability. By spinning off processor- or resource-intensive tasks into their own threads, the rest of the program can continue to operate while these processor intensive tasks finish working.
As commented by @Xaver Kapeller, you may create as many Threads you want but more thread not actually the part of the solution.
A core(CPU) in Processor will handle only one Task(Process or Thread) at a given time.
so in Processor with 1 core will handle one thread at a time. so technically no matter how many threads you open for this processor it will serve a thread at a given time. All threads which are running would be using processor sequentially, utilizing quantum time of processor which only seems to be concurrent.
Processor with 2 core will handle 2 threads at a time( concurrent execution of two threads).
Processor with 4 core will handle 4 threads at a time( concurrent execution of four threads.
Processor with 8 core will handle 8 threads at a time( concurrent execution of eight threads. so on
194
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
