ANSWER: POP QUIZ: What are Free Threads in the Threadpool

So I was hoping to get some more comments to this before posting the answer but I guess that isn�t going to happen.
The minFreeThreads and minLocalRequestFreeThreads are very important settings when it comes to how much load your webserver can handle.  So the whole situation is this. 
You can get a good overview of the settings from my post, Hangs and how to solve them - part 2 ââ?¬â?? Queuing.  In there I give the recommended values in the ââ?¬Å?How to fix queuingââ?¬Â section.
There is a great write up on this here.  But to summarize, these control the amount of threads that are available to do work other then aspx requests.  So callbacks, timers, web service calls.  They all run on the threads ââ?¬Å?reservedââ?¬Â by this se ...