Moving the example scripts here since it was spamming the main page, sorry :)

The RCVR_MAXCON variable in the example script is set to 3 to make this happen much quicker.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use threads;
use threads::shared;
use IO::Socket;

my $RCVR_MAXCON = 3; # Max connections a receiver will process before 
+recycling
my $MAXRCVR = 50; # Hard max limit
my $MINIDLE = 5; # Minimum idle threads
my $MAXIDLE = 10; # Maximum idle threads

# Shared receiver thread status hash
my %idle : shared;
my %busy : shared;
my $statchg : shared = 1;

# change status

sub setidle {
  my $tid = threads->self->tid;
  lock($statchg);
  delete $busy{$tid};
  $idle{$tid} = 1;
  $statchg++;
  cond_signal($statchg);
}

sub setbusy {
  my $tid = threads->self->tid;
  lock($statchg);
  delete $idle{$tid};
  $busy{$tid} = 1;
  $statchg++;
  cond_signal($statchg);
}

sub setdead {
  my $tid = threads->self->tid;
  lock($statchg);
  delete $idle{$tid};
  delete $busy{$tid};
  $statchg++;
  cond_signal($statchg);
}

sub receiver($) {
  my $lsock = shift;
  my $runcount = $RCVR_MAXCON;

  threads->self->detach;

  while($runcount > 0) {
    my $data;
    my $temp;
    setidle;
    my $conn = $lsock->accept;
    setbusy;
    while($conn->read($temp,16384)) { $data.=$temp; }
    print "Thread " . threads->self->tid . " received $data\n";
    $conn->close();
    $runcount--;
  }
  print "+++Thread " . threads->self->tid . " exiting after $RCVR_MAXC
+ON connections\n";
  $lsock->close;
  setdead;
}

# Create the tcp socket;
my $lsock = IO::Socket::INET->new ( Listen => 10,
                                LocalPort => 7676,
                                Proto => 'tcp',
                                Reuse => 1 ) || die $!;

while (1) {
  lock($statchg);
  cond_wait($statchg) until $statchg > 0;
  my $idlecount = scalar(keys %idle);
  my $busycount = scalar(keys %busy);
  my $total = $idlecount+$busycount;
  print "--Current-- Idle: $idlecount Busy: $busycount\n";
  if($total < $MAXRCVR && $idlecount < $MINIDLE) {
    print "--------- Adding 1 thread!\n";
    threads->create("receiver",$lsock) || die $!;
  } elsif($idlecount > $MAXIDLE) {
    print "--------- Killing 1 thread!\n";
    # kill 1 thread, unimplemented yet...
  }
  $statchg=0;
}
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And here's a client script I use to stuff some connections at the server. I usually just fire off several in the background like: ./testclient & ./testclient & ./testclient &

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use IO::Socket;

while(my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new("localhost:7676")) {
  print $sock "TEST";
  sleep 1;
  $sock->close;
}
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