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Follow up on .NET 2.0 SP1 ThreadPool Bug

Monday, March 03, 2008 11:49:40 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Here's a followup post on the .NET ThreadPool bug that I described here:

Breaking Changes in the ThreadPool: The Movie

I have been in touch with the guys who are in charge of the ThreadPool and they have both confirmed that this is a bug and that they are planning on fixing it in .NET 2.0 SP2 - but they are not sure of the timeline for its release.

In the meantime, Vance Morrison, a .NET Runtime Performance Architect at Microsoft, has given me this work-around.

Take this "broken" code:

	private static void UseThreadPool(int count)
        {
            for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
            {
                ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(
                    delegate { SlowMethod(); } );
            }
        }

And add a strategic Thread.Sleep and it's fixed:

	private static void UseThreadPool(int count)
        {
            for ( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
            {
                ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(
                    delegate { SlowMethod(); } );
		Thread.Sleep(1);
            }
        }

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