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Re: Thread "limit" to an application?

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From: Goran Ekstrom
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 15:28
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OK Remy, thanks.

"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> skrev i meddelandet 
news:44ca6644$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Goran Ekstrom" <goek!removeantispam!@telia.com> wrote in message
> news:44ca6298$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
>> is there any limit, technical, philosophical, ..., to how many threads an
>> application "should/could" be running?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Right now I am having quite extensive RS-232 communication in my
>> app, 3 active ports and counting
>
> That is not very extensive at all.
>
>> each port handler is running on its own thread together with the VCL
>> and a "handler" thread.
>
> In other words, you only have 5 threads running?  That is next to nothing.
> A process can have several *hundred* threads running simultaneously before
> you start to have reosurce/memory problems.  If you tweak the stack 
> settings
> for new threads, and the threads don't allocate very much 
> memory/resources,
> you could potentially even run upwards of 1000+ threads, depending on 
> which
> OS you are using.
>
>
> Gambit
>
> 
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