Hey, I am using Perl 5.8.8. on Win XP. Im fairly new to this concept of Perl threads. As I am doing some network bandwidth testing, I am trying to open 200 HTTP connections to server and download 200 files(10MB size each) from server to client through http protocol. Here is the code for the same.

use threads;

for (my $i=0;$i<200;$i++) {
my $filename = "File-10M-".$i.".txt";
$thread = threads->new(\&sub1, $filename);
}

sub sub1 {
my $filename = shift;
system("wget --output-document D:\\kshare\\payload\\$filename http://10.2.1.23/http-path/payload/$filename >nul");
}

__END__

The problem is that, its unable to open more than 120 connections. I have tried $thread->join; $thread->detach as well, but the problem isnt solved. Could anyone please suggest me where im going wrong or any better way of doing the same in perl. I have also tried Forking, but forking breaks at the 64 connection itself. Thanks in advance!

 

 

In reply to Perl threads to open 200 http connections by robrt

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