ASP.NET and QueueUserWorkItem and IIS5 & 6

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Raghu - 22 Apr 2004 21:12 GMT

I read some where that each post request into ASP.NET comes on I/O thread in
IIS5 and on worker thread IIS6. If we write a custom handler (read ashx
page) and use QueueUserWorkItem to spawn work on pooled thread and return
immediately to the client, what type of thread will be used when work
commences? Is it I/O thread or worker thread in each IIS version? Any
gotcha's here from perf wise?

Thanks.
Raghu/.

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Alvin Bruney [MVP] - 22 Apr 2004 23:27 GMT

the short answer is yes you may run out of worker pool threads. where did
you read that article? can you find and send a link?

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