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Concurrent Task Limit
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:51 am
by ahunkins
Sorry if this has been asked before...
Is there a limit to the number of tasks that can be running at the same time? I know each is in it's own thread, but is there a limit, maybe even imposed by Windows?
Thanks!
Concurrent Task Limit
Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:16 am
by ahunkins
...also wondering if there is a limit to the number of BASIC tasks running at the same time. Are there some common resources in the BASIC plugin that would come into contention if many BASIC scripts were started over the same period of time?
Concurrent Task Limit
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:36 am
by Oleg
We didn't any restrictions for amount of concurrent tasks. Also we don't know about problems related with this. Nevertheless we have tested RoboTask with executing of many concurrent task. It works stably.
In real work RoboTask runs more than 5 tasks very rarely.
Concurrent Task Limit
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:23 pm
by ahunkins
Thanks.
I have many file monitor tasks set up, pointing at files that change often. They change when my computer is off at night, etc. When RoboTask starts, regardless of the interval setting, they all fire at once because each detects a change in the file at first glance. I was seeing RoboTask lock up on occasion.
On further investigation, I think my problem is related to COM connections. I have several toolbar plug-ins for Outlook (Google bar, Skype and MindJet) as well as calls to Outlook from RoboTask BASIC plug-in. I have removed the Skype and MindJet plug-ins and I think it is better.
Anyway, I thought I'd ask if there was a common pool of file handles, buffers, BASIC sessions or COM connections, such that my many tasks might be causing the problem. If anyone else is seeing something similar I'd be happy to post any new info I find. But at this point I don't think it's a problem with RoboTask.