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 Monday, March 05, 2007

.NET CLR - Covertly Throttling Thread Creation

Joe Duffy (from Microsoft) talking about the .NET 2.0 CLR:

"It's also worth noting that the threadpool throttles its creation of threads to 2/second once the count has exceeded the # of CPUs."


Yuck...  I don't like throttling like that behind the scenes.  It can make performance problems *very* hard to diagnose.

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Monday, March 05, 2007 5:31:32 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
I totally agree. I wrote about some of the problems this can cause here: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,fe3434c7-b3b7-42c8-9267-df996c9c222a.aspx. Just tellin' it like it is, not how it should be. ;)

--joe
Joe Duffy | joeAT NOSPAMbluebytesoftware dot com
Monday, March 05, 2007 6:18:17 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Joe,
Well thanks for letting us all know. Keep the good info coming! (especially performance related stuff :)

-corey
Corey Goldberg
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