James Mckenzie wrote in a message to Rob Landley:

 RL> P.S.  There's a "threads=" type parameter in config.sys which
 RL> defaults to something rediculously low.

 JM> Sounds like a rehash of a discussion I had with Michael
 JM> Kilby.  The default is 64, but OS/2 sets it with a THREADS=
 JM> line to 256.  Most systems will run fine with 128 or 160
 JM> active threads.  I have seen BackMaster running up to 30
 JM> threads while doing a drive search on my system and this
 JM> program uses the most threads here.

The THREADS setting in CONFIG.SYS actually controls how much is allocated
from fixed memory at boot for thread overhead.  Each thread gets a thread
control block and an I/O request block which are owned by it alone during
its life.
 
-- Mike


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