Alternatives to slow requests that are saturating the thread pool

Hi
I have slow request that are saturating the thread pool because these
request are invoking a slow web service too.

To try resolve it I have read that there are two solutions:

1) I could change the upper limit of the thread pool. I'm understand it.

2) Using asynchronous handlers. Create my own thread pool, allocate distinct
threads to service them, freeing up the original thread pool thread to
service additional requests. I don't understand well this second solution.
Where is the advantage with the first one? It seems poor because there is a
more code to execute.


Thanks in advance
Javier

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