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Appropriate number of threads in Proxy Manager? - Jex - 09-16-2017
Hello all,
I was told when scanning public proxies within the ScrapeBox Proxy Manager it's important not to use over 500 threads. This doesn't make any sense to me considering as long as your machine is able to handle more threads, why would this be a problem?
The only thing I can think of is that when you harvest public proxies, a lot of them are from the same IP ranges/blocks and the more threads you're running, the more connections will be open on certain IP range/blocks. Since you're scanning from a single IP, too many connections from this IP could cause problems.
Although I'm far from 100% sure, it seems at times that running a max of 500 threads does seem to result in more proxies. However, I haven't done enough testing to state this conclusively and I could be 100% wrong.
Can anyone offer any further info as to whether the max 500 thread limit is true (for public proxies at least), and if there is some truth to it, why?
Thanks in advance.