James Blackwell wrote in a message to Matthew Smith:

-=> On Aug 28, 1995 at 17:09, Matthew Smith wrote this to All <=-

 JB>  Hi Matthew,

MS> How many threads can os/2 realistically handle before it
MS> slows down to much? I'm designing a game for os/2 in which I
MS> intend to anywhere between 100 to 200 threads...  is this
MS> even realistic?  Can os/2 deal out timeslices very fast to
MS> 200 individual threads?

 JB> Well Matt, this probably NOT help you, but here goes.

 JB> I started a CMD I wrote (code as follows)..... I was able to
 JB> start 62 os/2 shells before the thrashing on the hard drive
 JB> was so bad that I basicly hung the system. This was on a AMD
 JB> DX4-100 with 8 megs of ram.

Keep in mind that different processes all have different memory
environments, and that different threads share the memory with the process
they in which run. Therefore more threads within a process would not mean
that more memory is consumed (leaving out required stack space for each
thread) so swap file trashing is not likely to occur due to an excessive
number of threads.

mvg/wr
  
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