From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T11:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: threads

On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:10, Brad Tilley wrote:
> What are reasonable limits on threads? Say I'm scanning a class b
> network (roughly 65K hosts). How would you break up the threads? I seem
> to get too many execution expired errors if I have more than 500 hosts
> in one thread. It seems to work best with 256 groups of 256 hosts each
> or 254 if you exclude the 0's and 255's
>
> What are reasonable limits when working with threads in Ruby? Any tips?

No tips there... it always depends on the task on hand - just use what works 
for you :)