Scalability Issues in CSRSS
One of our current topics is pushing the limits of operating systems. Inspired by Mark Russinovich’s article Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads, we built a theoretical model for the amount of threads that can be created on a given system and then tried to reach these limits. However, the practical evaluation was kind of tricky and we stumbled upon an issue within CSRSS, Windows’ client server runtime subsystem.