.Net an Timers

[Cheetah Designs]

Just wanted to make sure I got my understanding correct.

If I have a single threaded application with 100 Timers (with an interval of 10seconds) in it, all using the same Elapsed event handler which takes 5 seconds to run the routine of. Essentially meaning there will be many timers running the same code at the same time.

It is my understanding that when a Timer elapses, its event handler is run on ANY thread in the Thread Pool of the .NET RUNTIME (not just the application).

What determines the thread pool size of the .NET runtime or does it grow if needs be.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

Sorry, what I meant was the number of Threads in the pool, not the size of the pool.

Because if I have only one single threaded .NET application running, surely there is only one thread and all the timers will elapse on that single thread.

 

[Cheetah Designs]

Guess what it comes down to is the fact I don't know whether its best to use Timers or Threads here.

Because I could simply use a thread with a while loop and sleep.