How many threads is too many?

Question

I am writing a server, and I send each action of into a separate thread when the request is received. I do this because almost every request makes a database query. I am usi

Answer 1

One thing to consider is how many cores exist on the machine that will be executing the code. That represents a hard limit on how many threads can be proceeding at any given time. However, if, as in your case, threads are expected to be frequently waiting for a database to execute a query, you will probably want to tune your threads based on how many concurrent queries the database can process.