Thread count and CPU usage

[Zappo]

Today my Ants, after staying up for about 12 hours, reached a thread count of 1448 (one thousand four hundred forty eight). Needless to say, CPU usage was firmly stuck at 100%. I had to shut it down in order to be able to use the computer.

This is by no means an uncommon situation, although the number is exceptionally high. Even after just a few hours, the thread count quickly gets in the hundreds, and Ants eats up all available CPU as well as a couple hundred megs of RAM.

I am well aware that the encryption and routing algorithms that Ants employs require much more resources than what traditional p2p programs use. However, this is way beyond unusable. At hundreds of threads, the context switch alone must be a resource hog!

[Krell]

OK thanks for the info

You might try to uninstall this and then reinstall the exe using the XP Comapatibility Wizard and chose W2k or W98, if not, I guess youre screwed.

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[Zappo]

I am on windows 2000.

[Krell]

There ya go.



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[multi]

would going into the task manager and setting the priority to low or below normal on the running .exe help at all ?
i dont know ants .
is there no way to limit this 'thread count' in the options?

[Zappo]

Well, I've uninstalled the JVM and reinstalled the latest one from Sun, but nothing changed. I still get easily 500 threads after a couple of hours, with a slow but steady growth.

I could put Ants on a low priority, but fixing the issue would be much better I think. ;)

[Feather]

ban the nut hugger