I had an HTTP interface monitor that used to do a test every minute, 24/7
with shell curl hits executed from ruby shell spawns out of ruby threads.
I had as many as over 1200 a minute on one machine, and curl was never a
problem.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Rich Gray <rgray_at_plustechnologies.com>
wrote:

> 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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