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Wally is talking about some of the limitations with .NET ThreadPool.

The limitations he is talking about is on the max number of threads. In the past I have had opposite problem. I wanted the ease of use that comes with the threadpool, but I wanted to limit to a certain number of threads. However, as it currently stands, this is not possible.

I then came across Stephen Toub's ManagedThreadPool which mimics the default ThreadPool, but with one major addition, control over the number of threads. This was initially set to a constant values, but with a quick tweak, I changed the static constructor to check for a config settings, otherwise to default to some other number.

This is what I am currently using in .Text all of my offline functions. So far, it has been quite handy.