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How to properly parallelise job heavily relying on I/O

You’re not leveraging any async I/O APIs in any of your code. Everything you’re doing is CPU bound and all your I/O operations are going to waste CPU resources blocking. AsParallel is for compute bound tasks, if you want to take advantage of async I/O you need to leverage the Asynchronous Programming Model (APM) based … Read more

When to dispose CancellationTokenSource?

Speaking about whether it’s really necessary to call Dispose on CancellationTokenSource… I had a memory leak in my project and it turned out that CancellationTokenSource was the problem. My project has a service, that is constantly reading database and fires off different tasks, and I was passing linked cancellation tokens to my workers, so even … Read more