[python-win32] [OT] Anyone happen to know the system-wide limit of HANDLEs in Windows 2000 Server?

[Tim Roberts]

Trent Nelson wrote:
> I'm debugging a weird/sporadic COM/ActiveX error with an application on a client's site that's recently been 'migrated' to Citrix Metaframe on Windows 2000 Server.  I'm starting to think we may be hitting the system-wide limit for how many HANDLEs can be created across all processes every so often, which always causes weird and wonderful behaviour.
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> However, I can't remember what the system-wide limit is, and stfw'ing didn't turn up any clues.  I recall reading something in a GDI programming book recently where the author used brute force to demonstrate that the system limit was around X handles -- but I can't remember what X was, I think it was around 43,000, but I'm not sure.
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> Anyone here happen to know off the top of their head?
>   

10,000 per process.   32,700 system-wide.  That's window manager objects 
-- window handles.  GDI object handles are separate.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/18/3926581.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725486.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724291.aspx

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.