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

In most cases you should allow the thread pool to handle this. If you post some code or give more details it might be easier to see if there is some reason the default behavior of the thread pool would not be best.

You can find more information on how this should work here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool_pattern