Many Threads + Many Sockets == SegFault?

[Erik Max Francis]

Doug Fort wrote:

> I've attached a little program that I'm testing.  It basically creates
> a
> number of threads (I've been using 100), each of which performs a
> simple
> HTTP 'GET' over and over.  This works fine when I run through our T1
> line
> against a server out in the cloud.

Are you aware that what you're doing is a denial-of-service attack?

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