I was wondering too if there was some sort of file handle limit I was running in to. I have not been able to find out what it might be using perl 5.8.0 from activestate under win2k. I see a lot of talk about 256 but can't verify it. :-(
yeah, it seems ActiveState 5.8.0 under WinXP, only 256 threads can be created. If Try to start more than that the program exits, no error, no warning. . . .:
use strict;
use threads;
my $num_threads = 0;
for(1..257) {
my $thr = threads->new(\&threader);
$num_threads++;
print "$num_threads started\r";
}
print "$num_threads running\n";
sleep();
sub threader {
sleep();
}