Handling MANY threads (100s!) - what is the best strategy?

Hi all,
I have an application which needs to manage the status on a server with 96
phone line ports. Each port is an indepedent process and reports status
codes independently.

Currently I have 1 thread per port monitoring the status... this is fine
for low volumes (i.e. when I only have 20 - 40 ports enabled) but once I
enable all 96, it seems that some messages are being backlogged. I *think*
it is a threading issue. Is there a practical limit to how many threads I
can run on a processor?

What is the best strategy to handle such a large number of independent
processes? Do I just need to upgrade my server hardware so I can run more
threads more quickly?

Thanks.

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