Comment 8 for bug 417053

so far, it seems that on my machine (1) threads (of the selftest) are created faster than they can be gced,
(2) some threads just won't die. I have been able to mitigate (sometimes eradicate) the problems associated
with (1). However (2) is a tough nut to crack, e.g. I have paramiko threads that don't go away. I thought I had
gotten rid of smart-server-child threads, but no... there is one that won't go away.

My machine is an XPS M1330 running Gentoo (~x86, 32bits kernel and userspace - I never made the transition
to 64bits). There seem to be NO limits that could be causing the problem.