[Tcl-Threads] Limited number of threads

[<nj...@re...>]

I've been writing an application in Tcl and I would like to use 10+  
threads in a thread pool.  I wrote the application in Windows and I  
can use tpool to successfully start any number of threads.  When I try  
to use the same script on my Gentoo Linux machine the script fails if  
I try to start more than 3 or 4 threads.  I'm using tcl and tk 8.4.18  
and thread 2.6.5 on both machines.  The very basic code that works on  
windows but not linux is:

package require Thread
set workers 10
set poolId [tpool::create -minworkers $workers -maxworkers $workers]

When I try this in Linux it hangs indefinitely, if I reduce the number  
of workers to 4 it will work about 50% of the time, 2 works all of the  
time.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
Nathan Jett