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Is it safe to use 25-30 timers using the CreateTimerQueueTimer function?

Posted 27-Jun-10 20:41pm

Gautam Raiker

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Sauro Viti · Answer 1 · 2010-06-27T21:05:00

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By reading the documentation of CreateTimerQueueTimer on the MSDN (CreateTimerQueueTimer Function (Windows)[^]), we can see that this kind of timers are handled using a thread pool whose standard size is 500 threads.
Then there are no problems in using 25-30 timers.

Posted 27-Jun-10 21:05pm

Sauro Viti

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Gautam Raiker 28-Jun-10 3:25am

Thanks :)