Re: how many threads

[Jack Cleaver <jackc () jackpot uk net>]

Michael wrote:

> Anyone care to guess how many threads you must hold on a winduhs box
>  to crash the host??
>
> One spam source IP address that's in my tarpits has almost 600 
> combined threads hung on the two tarpit servers, most for several 
> days.

I believe that (all other things being equal) WinNT can cope with over
4000 threads. That should apply to Win2K and WinXP as well. But if all
of those threads are actually competing, rather than just sleeping, the
machine will dribble to a halt (not crash) due to context-switching
overheads.

--
Jack.