After some research, it appears that the message "thread failed to start" is misleading and that in fact the thread has died. The question is, why?

I have written a threaded perl socket server that responds to commands from clients. I have also written a client that will spawn X number of threads that each communicate to the server seperately.

While the clients are all sending their request to the server is when I get a various number of "thread failed to start" messages. It happens under both windows and linux. Does anyone know what this issue is? Am I pushing the envelope?

I need a server that can handle 512-1024 connections at one time. This so far seems to work. But I need to stress test it with a script that can launch that many connections. Not only do I get those errors but as more and more sockets are connected, things seems to slow down quite a bit. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

In reply to thread failed to start? by noslenj123

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