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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Server - tasking and long lived connections
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:20:07 -0500
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"Eric Merritt" <cyberlync@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1008382022.25904.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> Anyway, I am just looking for some one to either point
> me in a different direction or confirm my current
> approach (one thread per connection).

One thread per connection cannot possibly scale well.  It is the *wrong* way
to implement a server.

Our RTSP video server uses WinNT I/O completion ports, so that a small
number of tasks (threads) can service hundreds (or even thousands) of client
connections.