Increase ThreadPool size above 25.

.NET ThreadPool has a default maximum number of threads in pool which is 25 as documented. There might be a need to increase it, but there is no proper documented API to achieve this goal. This might be a requirement for many of us.

Here’s what you can do:

The Mscoree.h has the definitions for MAX limit of thread pool, and there are APIs for getting/setting it.

What is Mscoree.dll?
Mscoree.dll is the .NET Runtime Execution Engine.

So how can you change the default size of ThreadPool?
Using the definitions in Mscoree.h we can define a COM interop dll, as mentioned below
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
[Guid(“CB2F6723-AB3A-11D2-9C40-00C04FA30A3E”), ComImport]
class CorRuntimeHost {}

[Guid(“84680D3A-B2C1-46e8-ACC2-DBC0A359159A”),InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
interface ICorThreadPool
{
void slot0(); // max threadpool settings
void slot1();
void slot2();
void slot3();
void slot4();
void slot5();
void slot6();
void CorSetMaxThreads( uint MaxWorkerThreads, uint MaxIOCompletionThreads );
void CorGetMaxThreads( out uint MaxWorkerThreads, out uint MaxIOCompletionThreads );
void CorGetAvailableThreads( out uint AvailableWorkerThreads, out uint AvailableIOCompletionThreads );
}
// Ok you are done with the COM interop, now build this into a class library (e.g. ThreadPool.dll )

Then you must consume the dll into you application, and using the APIs of this managed dll you can now change the default ThreadPool size. Here how you go about doing it.

uint maxWorkerThreads;
uint availWorkerThreads;
uint maxIOThreads;
uint availIOThreads;

ICorThreadPool iThreadPool ;
iThreadPool = (ICorThreadPool)new CorRuntimeHost();
iThreadPool.CorGetMaxThreads(out maxWorkerThreads, out maxIOThreads);
iThreadPool.CorGetAvailableThreads(out availWorkerThreads, out availIOThreads);
System.Console.Writeline(“Available worker threads : ” + availWorkerThreads);
System.Console.Writeline(“Available IO threads : ” + availIOThreads);
iThreadPool.CorSetMaxThreads(30,availIOThreads); // changing worker threadpool size from 25 to 30

Hmm! so we are done 🙂

-Bugs!