Why doesn't multithreading in C# reach 100% CPU?

Question

I\'m working on a program that processes many requests, none of them reaching more than 50% of CPU (currently I\'m working on a dual core). So I created a threa

Answer 1

It is probably no longer the processor that is the bottleneck for completing your process. The bottleneck has likely moved to disk access, network access or memory access. You could also have a situation where your threads are competing for locks.

Only you know exactly what your threads are doing, so you need to look at them with the above in mind.