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Re: Bug in libcurl in multithreaded program

From: Avery Fay <avery_fay_at_symantec.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:28:00 -0400

I've tested on Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 2000 Server.

Avery Fay

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  | To: Avery Fay <avery_fay_at_symantec.com> |
  | cc: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>, libcurl Mailing list <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net> |
  | Subject: Re: Bug in libcurl in multithreaded program |
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Avery Fay wrote:

> On linux and FreeBSD: everything is fine regardless of protocol (HTTP,
> HTTPS, FTP) and number of threads
> On windows: HTTP and HTTPS work fine regardless of number of threads. FTP
> is ok until about 4 threads or so and then everything grinds nearly to a
> halt.

What kind of windows are you using ?

AFAIR M$ has crippled the IP stacks of the home user's Windows
(95,98,...)
So if you want to run a server accepting more than ~4 connections,
you have to use a real operating system.

(Pay big bucks to M$ or get one for free...)

Bye

Goetz

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Received on 2002-06-04