I'm running Linux, 2.6.18, 32bit on a turion x2 tl-60.

I just ran a similar program written in c.
It doesn't grow (stays exactly at a res memory of 944B), also after 15 million threads created and destroyed.
So I can at least say it's not related to my pthreads library.

I'll however wait a bit before submitting a bug report, maybe someone else knows a solution.
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/select.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

using namespace std;

static int threadscount = 0;
pthread_mutex_t threadscount_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;



void* thread( void* data ){
        pthread_mutex_lock( &threadscount_mutex );
        threadscount--;
        //cout << threadscount << endl;
        pthread_mutex_unlock( &threadscount_mutex );
        pthread_exit(0);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
        int count = 0;
        int a;
        
        struct timeval timeout;

        while (1){
                for ( int a = 1; a <= 10; a++ ){
                        pthread_mutex_lock( &threadscount_mutex );
                        threadscount++;
                        pthread_mutex_unlock( &threadscount_mutex );
                        pthread_t  p_thread;       /* thread's structu
+re                     */
                        pthread_create(&p_thread, 0, thread, (void*)&a
+);
                        pthread_detach( p_thread );

                        count ++;
                }
                cout << "count: " << count << endl;
                int c;
                do {
                        timeout.tv_usec = 100;
                        timeout.tv_sec = 0;
                        select( 0, 0, 0, 0, &timeout );

                        pthread_mutex_lock( &threadscount_mutex );
                        c = threadscount;
                        pthread_mutex_unlock( &threadscount_mutex );
                    } while ( c > 0);
                        
        }
}

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