A Linux kernel typically requires around 2MB of memory to create a thread, according to José Paumard, a member of the Java Developer Relations team at Oracle. Large-scale websites that dedicate each ...

Java Thread Programming ... In Chapter 5, the authors discuss the use of shared memory — on the heap, not the Unix system variety — all for the purpose of having a thread pool.

Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter alternative to threads ... the amount of memory required ...

With JDK 21, Java is entering a new era of efficiency ... This allows developers to create thousands, even millions, of virtual threads without high memory or CPU demands. Virtual threads excel ...