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diarrheatoday at 1:39 PM0 repliesview on HN

Exactly. I do not know the specifics, but for example if libraries you call into liberally spawn_blocking under the expectation that it is okay, you will be in trouble.

Says it right there actually:

> It’s recommended to not set this limit too low in order to avoid hanging on operations requiring spawn_blocking.

So a total like 6 - reasonable for a web backend - would be way too low.