I am trying to understand the impact of setting ThreadPool.SetMinthreads
. I have multiple virtual applications running in one Azure App Service. My understanding is that all these virtual applications will share the App Pool, and will have only one worker process (Assuming the App Pool's max worker process will be 1).
I have the below two questions.
- In this setup, if I set
ThreadPool.SetMinThreads
to let's say 100 worker threads and IO threads, can I safely assume that each app domain will have 100 worker threads and 100 IO threads when it is loaded? To be precise, the ThreadPool.SetMinThreads applies within the AppDomain, or Worker Process or App Pool? What is the scope of ThreadPool? - I also assume there is no limitation on the max threads the system can spawn as it is determined by the underlying host's capacity. This means, if I do not explicitly set ThreadPool.SetMaxThreads, the system will spawn new threads and will continue to do it if there is a continuous load till CPU/Memory spikes to the max. I am basing on the below statement to support my assumption:
Process and threads, for example, require physical memory, virtual memory, and pool memory, so the number of processes or threads that can be created on a given Windows system is ultimately determined by one of these resources, depending on the way that the processes or threads are created and which constraint is hit first. https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2009/07/05/pushing-the-limits-of-windows-processes-and-threads/