I'm pretty sure that's not actually the case. I'd wager that CF has an internal thread pool, so that thread, once it's finished with it's assigned task, just remains in the pool to be reused as needed. This is similar to how CF page requests work: there is a pool of sleeping request processing threads waiting for a request to come in. At the end of the request, the thread is released, but it's not killed off, it gets reused by a subsequent request.
Granted, I can't say that with any sort of empirical backing, but I'd wager that it's correct at least at a high level. One way to tell would be to create a page that fires off a thread, and load that page in the browser. Check the server monitor. Repeat a few more times, and compare what happens to the thread count in the monitor. I bet once you get up to 5 or 10 threads, you stop seeing new threads being created. And actually, I think there's a setting in the CF admin that controls this, now that I think about it. Don't have an instance in front of me to check, however. cheers, barneyb On 10/11/07, Charles Sheehan-Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So here's a question. I execute a cfthread on application startup, > and it finishes its work. There is no terminate because the page > context it was called from is long gone, and I've just discovered > that a thread can't terminate itself. it leaves the thread running, > basically forever. Not doing anything, but sitting there and > identifiable in the server monitor. > > Has anyone looked at the impact of having lots of these lying around > doing nothing? Any serious resource impact? > -- Barney Boisvert [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barneyb.com/ Got Gmail? I have 100 invites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:290898 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
