There is a compiled in limit of 100 threads in Win32 - I ran into this a few weeks back. Please see this thread.
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=373409 --mikej > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Deighan > Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 9:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Perl threads crash perl > > > Seeing as noone else has responded to this, let me simply say > that I tried > to develop an application using Perl threads, and in my opinion, Perl > threads are seriously broken. We had to re-write the > application without > threads. > > The main problem was that threads would die, but I found no > reliable way of > detecting this. Also, some advice I found on the web said that you > shouldn't create too many threads - they weren't designed for that. > However, there was no mention of what the limit might be, how > to determine > the limit, or how to discover whether thread creation > succeeded or failed. > All this means that if you want to create a couple of > threads, it should > (?) work, but beyond that, who knows? > > At 04:07 PM 7/29/2004, Nadjaf Kuliev wrote: > >When i tested my IIS vulnerability checker, it works > perfecly, but when I > >added multitasking support, it starts good, bit by bit cpu > noise increases > >then perl crases with unknown error. I didnt use fork(). I > used builtin > >Threads support with async{}. I dont want to make the code > public before > >first release so ill tell some details, if it wont help i > will email some of > >you who really wants to help the code. So here it is, the > main scripts gets > >all the vulnerability check, ie vulnerable file checks from > a file and tries > >them one by one on particular IIS webserver. Ony by one is > really slow, so I > >implemented threads. As you may know if it is checking the > webserver it > >surely will send HTTP requests for each vulnerable file. I > use IO::Socket > >only, not HTTP support modules. > > > >As far as i can guess, the reason for crash is most probably > not in the code > > but in the perl, perl threads support particularly and how > interacts with > >my OS - windows 98. > > > >Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > > >Respect, OkIDaN. > >_______________________________________________ > >Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
