Practical limit on number of concurrently open messages

Practical limit on number of concurrently open messages, Other than RAM, is there a practical limit on the number of messages one can have open concurrently?

VLM - User Posts: 20 Points: 15 Rating: 1 Authority: 1 Joined: 25 July 2012	#1 0 09 June 2013 06:12:44 Other than RAM, is there a practical limit, either absolute or in terms of noticeable performance degradation, on the number of messages one can have open concurrently? Thanks!

Rick G Guru Posts: 774 Points: 2063 Rating: 49 Authority: 49 Joined: 23 July 2006	#2 0 09 June 2013 07:01:12 Depends on your system, but I have had over 100 open at once on Win 8 x64 with 8 gb of memory. It would have crashed on my old XP system It may OPEN more, but it is going to start swapping to disk and take forever