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How many background workers can I use? Threads? etc.

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    42? This is not a real question. – Ken White Apr 15 '11 at 18:03
  • Do you mean how many threads can you have in one process? –  Apr 15 '11 at 18:04
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    This is a dupe of this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/145312/maximum-number-of-threads-in-a-net-app – Andy Apr 15 '11 at 18:05
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    dupe of this one as well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2198907/can-i-use-too-many-background-worker-threads – Sanjeevakumar Hiremath Apr 15 '11 at 18:07
  • @Ken White: Not helpful... please explain @skwllsp: Yes @Andy: That didn't pop up when I searched @Sanjeevakumar Hiremath: Didn't catch my eye – LunchMarble Apr 15 '11 at 18:13
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    @Storm: [42](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=42). "The Almighty Answer to the Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything." – Ken White Apr 15 '11 at 18:24
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    I find the question perfectly valid, the fact that others in the past had asked similar ones shows that this is not the first time somebody wonders about this. – Edwin Dalorzo Apr 15 '11 at 18:30
  • @edalorzo: That would make this a duplicate then, wouldn't it? I'm sorry, but "How fast will a plane go?" isn't an answerable question without a lot more information (what kind of plane, what kind of engine, what altitude, etc.). – Ken White Apr 15 '11 at 22:32
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    @Ken White: I understood the reference. Your answer was simply not helpful. If anyone needed more information they could have said so - I had no idea that my question was not enough to go off of. – LunchMarble Apr 16 '11 at 00:07

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Tha maximum number of threads you can create is only bounded by the resources that you have.

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Edwin Dalorzo
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Depends on your hardware/software configuration and your use cases.

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    This is not an answer, any more than this was a question to answer. (Point being: Please don't answer non-questions. It encourages clutter in the form of other non-questions.) You should delete it before you start collecting downvotes. – Ken White Apr 15 '11 at 18:26