From 06a12ada48c11a101eb138220cd0e0ca33a612be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 23:35:08 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] tests/thread: Add stress-test for creating many threads.

---
 tests/thread/stress_create.py | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/thread/stress_create.py

diff --git a/tests/thread/stress_create.py b/tests/thread/stress_create.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2399746cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/thread/stress_create.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# stress test for creating many threads
+
+try:
+    import utime as time
+except ImportError:
+    import time
+import _thread
+
+def thread_entry(n):
+    pass
+
+thread_num = 0
+while thread_num < 500:
+    try:
+        _thread.start_new_thread(thread_entry, (thread_num,))
+        thread_num += 1
+    except MemoryError:
+        pass
+
+# wait for the last threads to terminate
+time.sleep(1)
+print('done')