> Hello,
>
> I've written a Windows service in C#. This service listens a tcp port and
> it creates a new thread with every new socket that arrives. This service
> also connects to a SQL Server database through a SQLConnection object.
>
> The question is, how do I know if the number of threads of my service is
> right? It's happening things that I don't really understand and I want to
> know why?
>
> 1. In the first line of the main function the thread count is 3. Why?
> 2. When the service uses the first time the SQLConnection to populate a
> datatable with some usefull information the thread count increases to
7!!!! I
> just wanted to execute a Select command syncronously, again why it is
> increased so much?
> 3. With the service running and without any connection arriving, suddenly
> the thread count rises to 8, why? my code is in a WaitHandle.WaitAny
waiting
> for some manualresetevent to be raised in the callback of the beginaccept
> function.
> 4. When I start a new thread to work with a new socket the thread count is
> increased with 3 new threads, I just started one ( I know that every time
I
> start a BeginReceive function it starts another thread to monitor the
> situation so the framework can execute my callback, but again why 3,
> shouldn't it be 2?
>
> Thanks for your help and patience.
>
> John