Re: [Mldonkey-users] Number of threads created in commonHasher ?

[MLdonkey]

>  Hello,
>  
>  are you limiting the number of threads created when hashing a file
>  or parts of a file ? I'm not an ocaml expert, but I couldn't find
>  any code that puts a constraint upon the creation of threads which
>  lead to alot of disc acvitivy and an unresponsive system when mld
>  started to re-hash everything (2.02-29, but i guess -28,
>  too). Suggestion: put a limit on the maximum number of threads
>  creatable or, even better, create a worker-thread pool of a fixed
>  number of threads and let them do the work on the hashing Fifo.

mldonkey uses ONE thread for hashing, and ONE for DNS
resolution. That's all. If you see more threads, then, it's a
bug. Once these two threads are created, they are never killed, and
always reused.

- MLDonkey