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Re: Is there the upper limit for the number of instances of curl runing at the same time?

From: Rich Gray <rgray_at_plustechnologies.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:01:05 -0400

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
>> So I want to know whether this method will harm the stability and the
>> correctness of my finally resutls or not when the number of instances is
>> very large, say, 10000.
>
> Not imposed by curl, no. But your system has a finite amount of memory for
> all those curl invokes to use and it also typically has a maximum amount of
> open files allowed that you may reach.

And processes and sockets.

Rich
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