HANDLE, THREAD, PROCESS System Limits

[neilsolent]

How can I look up the absolute HANDLE, THREAD and PROCESS limits of
Windows? (By this, I mean the maximum numbers that can ever be reached
in the "Totals" box on the Performance panel of Task Manager).

Ideally I would like to get these theoretical maximum values from a
script - so I need something like a registry key, or perfmon counter
or WMI object.

Many thanks for your time!

Neil.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows
real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows System & Performance

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How can I look up the absolute HANDLE, THREAD and PROCESS limits of
Windows? (By this, I mean the maximum numbers that can ever be reached
in the "Totals" box on the Performance panel of Task Manager).

Ideally I would like to get these theoretical maximum values from a
script - so I need something like a registry key, or perfmon counter
or WMI object.

Many thanks for your time!

Neil.

 

[neilsolent]

Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows
real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Thanks for that Carey, looks like a good tool.
But do you know the answer to the question ?
I have tested and it seems that the upper handle limit on W2003 is
around 1.3 million. I've no idea why, where this is set, or wether it
can be configured. I have even less idea about the limiting number of
processes and threads!