When should you use Async Controllers in ASP.NET MVC?

Changing an 开发者_运维技巧ASP.NET MVC synchronous controller (Controller) to an asynchronous controller (AsyncController) seems like a trivial thing to do, but when should you do it?

Should I just make every controller async irrespective of its actions? What are examples of operations that would be improved if used in an asynchronous controller?

Taking the most trivial example: static html pages. So you have the most basic of controllers which simply returns a View from the Index action. Should this controller be changed to asynchronous i.e. now returning from IndexCompleted?

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I was reading this article recently. It think it summarizes what AsyncController are ment for.

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I know this is a old question but i struggled to get the answer , so heres my two cents.

Its like saying that if we do not have fever , should i still take a pill. You should use Asynch controller if you see thread starvation on your web server. IIS webserver maintains a pool of threads. So when any request comes in he picks up the thread from thread pool. If at a given moment all the threads from the pool are utilized and request comes in, that request goes in a waiting mode. This situation is termed as "Thread starvation". You can also watch this youtube video where i have demonstrated how MVC thread starvation looks like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvg13n5V0V0

When you make your controller as Asynch, it utilizes the thread, spawns the operation, and moves that thread back to the thread pool so it be can utilized for other requests coming in to the MVC application. Once the operation finishes he pulls back the thread from thread pool and displays the view.