Dimitris Andreadis [http://community.jboss.org/people/dimitris] modified the document: "Modular Service Container - optimal threadpool size" To view the document, visit: http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17410 -------------------------------------------------------------- AS7 boots with MSC configured to use a threadpool size of double the number of available processors. Boot time results after the 2nd run (so the filesystem cache is initalized) on my machine (Win7, Intel i7 Q740, 4G, SSD), with the org.jboss.server.bootstrap.maxThreads set by default set to 16. || *config * || *16 (default) * || *8 * || *4 * || *3 * || *2 * || *1 * || | standalone.xml | 2690ms | 2657ms | 2658ms | 2683ms | 2667ms | 2694ms | | | standalone-full.xml | 2964ms | 2939ms | 2922ms | 2955ms | 2981ms | 3336ms | | | standalone-ha.xml | 3413ms | 3324ms | 3352ms | 3351ms | 3415ms | 4014ms | | | standalone-osgi-only.xml | 1803ms | 1721ms | 1868ms | 1792ms | 1950ms | 1940ms | | | standalone-xts.xml | 5907ms | 6087ms | 5919ms | 5810ms | 6042ms | 7725ms | | -------------------------------------------------------------- Comment by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17410] Create a new document in JBoss AS 7 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=102&am...]