Help!! I need to figure out the easiest and quickest way to limit the number of running instances my component has going on the server. Right now, I have an ActiveX server (exe) running on the server and called via DCOM from the clients. The problem is that too many instances are running at once and flooding our server.

I am willing to redesign pieces of this but would prefer to still use DCOM to keep the process on the server. How can I limit the number of threads? Can MTS handle this for me? Looking at MTS, I can't figure out how it limits the number of threads. I only want to have like 5 running at a time and each client just grabs the next available in round robin format or whatever works best.

Thanks so much!