Design Pattern: Gate Keeper

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@rlkoshak

This timer runs forever,

If I have a rule using a GateKeeper (the complex example using queues), then one timer runs forever:
If a timer runs forever, does it mean, one thread is used forever?

@rlkoshak

By default the Rules DSL only provides five threads for Rules to execute in. … When all five threads are used up with long running Rules, that means that no other Rules can execute until one of these long running Rules exits.

If I have five rules, each using one GateKeeper:
Does the Rules DLS run out of threads?