# Does stdlib network sockets use only first thread?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-stdlib-network-sockets-use-only-first-thread/123027>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** networking, multithreading\
**Created:** [November 24, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-stdlib-network-sockets-use-only-first-thread/123027 "2024-11-24T21:33:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pedro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@Pedro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Pedro)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-stdlib-network-sockets-use-only-first-thread/123027/7 "2024-12-04T10:16:17Z")

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Thanks for detailed reply and pointing the right place in the documentation. 🙂  
I don’t know why I didn’t notice that. ☹

I also learnt just yesterday that event loop runs only on thread 1 in another topic [Non-blocking network IO - #9 by Pedro](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/non-blocking-network-io/123344/9) via great JuliaCon talk [A retrospect on Julia web services: HTTP, performance and memory | Guliński, Georgakopoulos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZ7xB62olI).

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