Re: What does the error "Process <URL> not running" mean?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes
> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 11:37:41 +0100
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
> 
> >>>>> On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:10:48 +0000, emacsq <laszlomail@protonmail.com> 
> >>>>> said:
> 
>     >> But the problem is present, so there must be some low limit in
>     >> emacs' windows code or elsewhere which prevent fetching urls in
>     >> parallel without errors.
> 
>     emacsq> I wrote a simple python script which fetched all the urls in
>     emacsq> parallel, in a separate thread each without any waiting, so that's
>     emacsq> dozens of urls at the same time and I did not get any "too many"
>     emacsq> errors.
> 
>     emacsq> So this suggests this too many sockets error is related to
>     emacsq> emacs somehow.
> 
> Didnʼt Eli already explain this? Emacs on windows has a limit of 32
> simultaneous sub-processes, and a network connection counts as a
> sub-process.

Indeed.  But given the amount of noise in this (and similar) threads,
I'm not surprised that people miss important information and keep
asking questions that were long answered.