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Re: Managing Multiple Connections

Subject: Re: Managing Multiple Connections
From: Quinn <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:37:27 +0100

At 9:18 -0400 21/5/03, Lyndsey Ferguson wrote:

I'm not an expert, but if you're creating a thread and not a process (via
fork()), then that thread shares the same resources and address space as the
main process/thread it was created in. It has its own stack though.

Just a cautionary note here: creating hundreds of threads is definitely not good. Each thread consumes a chunk of kernel (and hence wired) memory. See Table 2-2 of "IMOSX: Performance" for details.

<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/Performance/index.html>

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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