FFI: number of worker threads?

[Simon Marlow]

Simon Marlow wrote:
> Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> 
>> Another related question.  I have some threaded applications running
> 
>  > which are servers and run continuously.  A thread is spawned for each
>  > new connection, and the thread exits when the client terminates.
> 
>>
>> I've noticed that the thread ID increases.  On one process I checked
> 
>  > today I am up to thread number 3300.  The number of running threads
>  > is not increasing; only six threads are running on this particular 
> process.
>  > The threads are cleaned up and exit.  The thread _ID_ is continually
>  > increasing.
> 
>>
>> Is this going to cause a problem when the thread ID exceeds some 
>> value?  Do I have to force the server process to recycle periodically?
>>
>> These processes are designed to run continuously, and are running in a 
>> fairly demanding commercial environment for extended periods of time.  
>> They have proven to be very stable and reliable.  I'm hopeful that it 
>> will not be necessary to recycle to force the thread ID to restart.
> 
> The thread ID assigned to new threads will wrap around when it reaches 
> 2147483647.  In 6.6 we made thread IDs 64 bits

oops, I lie.  It's still 32 bits in 6.6.

Cheers,
	Simon