I don't understand why your saying i only created one child thread from the beginning to end!?!? If what you're saying is correct, and ive got $workers = 1, then when i launch the 1st thread, and it never quits, threads->list should always contain it's tid, therefore no more threads should be created and it should just sit there after showing: Starting workerPool... creating new threads ---I am thread 1! BUT, on my machine it doesnt, it goes on to print "I am thread X.. blah" where X goes from 1 till roughly 1020. Why?? And why does it get to around 1020 and then just hang?? confused :-/ Many thanks! P.S more info on what i'm trying to do is given in my reply to submersible_toaster (the url)

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