I found that 'Handles' and 'Threads' in Probe Health.
What does 'Handles' and 'Threads' mean in the Probe Health ? And What is the recommended range for stable operation? (Note that PRTG is running on Virtual machine with Windows 2016 Standard.)
What does 'Handles' and 'Threads' mean in the Probe Health ?
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Dear Jonathan_Jung,
handles are integer numbers identifying an object (or more technically, an instance of a resource), a thread is a part of a multi-threaded process which is executed decoupled from other threads.
PRTG limits the threads per probe. A probe has only up to 500 threads for sensors scans, plus some additional threads for other work. The handle count is less critical, a process is technically allowed to use a couple of millions handles.
Created on Dec 23, 2019 2:50:46 PM by
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Dear Jonathan_Jung,
the probe can only do up to 500 scans at the same time, since only up to 500 threads are used. The probe has a scheduler for scan requests and distributes those over the threadpool. Some sensor scans cannot be run at the same time, those use a "mutex" (mutual exclusion) which is recognized by the scheduler.
Created on Dec 25, 2019 5:03:06 PM by
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