You're right, 120 threads is quite excessive, and I can't think of a situation where >120 threads would be needed either.

I was using the above code to write a custom SMTP server for spam prevention and we anticipated it to be heavily hit. During my benchmarks I wanted to simulate the unlikley event of a few hundred simultaneous connections to see how well it performed under this kind of pressure. The entire process was shutting down, no errors, no messages and it wasted many hours of my life trying to figure out why.

I suppose it's not really a *huge* problem in theory, but when you don't know why something happens, it could become a huge problem.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: threads and RAM-Usage by deadkarma
in thread threads and RAM-Usage by strat

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