Thread count not consistent

qwiz

I ram up the thread count in my GSA 500, but I noticed that the software is not consistently maximizing the requested 500 threads. It fluctuates anywhere from low 200s to high 400s, rarely does it reach the 500 that I want.

1. what would have made such a swing and what can I do to make sure the thread count remained consistently where I want them to be at 500?

StoimenIliev

First of all, it would be great if you share your PC's configuration, the number of proxies you are using and the number of projects working at the same time

qwiz

StoimenIliev, my pc is 13.6ghz, 4gb ram. Am on 100 semi-dedicated proxies from buyproxies.org. And I am running 15 projects with a total of about 200 or so target URLs, these are tier 1 URLs that I manually insert into GSA as target URLs. I am building tier 1a, tier 2 onwards based off @ron's tiered structure.

Tim89

Are you using link lists or are you scraping & posting

RuFFCuT

How many projects are you running? I found this too when running just one or two projects, but when I add one or more projects so I have 3+ running in maxes it out (I run at 800 threads).

I guess each project can only use a certain amount of threads - I use lists and private proxies.

qwiz

@Tim89, I am using bought lists from members of this forum, high verified lists.

RuFFCuT, I am running 15 projects, with a total of about 200 or so target URLs.

Satans_Apprentice

You are hitting either server or bandwidth limitations. You may need a better server or more bandwidth. Do you have 50 Proxies for 500 threads? That's what I would recommend. You may also have slow proxies.

ron

I was going to say that depending on the tasks that SER is doing, threads will always fluctuate, and that is normal. I don't think I have ever had a situation where my threads were maxed out all day - some of the day - but not all day.