StopThread() cannot stop the newly opened background thread, resulting in unlimited thread growth and eventually breaking the Linux system limit.

[hkszlq]

in src/DinkToPdf/SynchronizedConverter.cs

private void StopThread() { lock (startLock) { if (conversionThread != null) { kill = true; while (conversionThread.ThreadState == ThreadState.Stopped) { } conversionThread = null; } } }

 private void StartThread()
    {
        lock (startLock)
        {
            if (conversionThread == null)
            {
                conversionThread = new Thread(**Run**)
                {
                    IsBackground = true,
                    Name = "wkhtmltopdf worker thread"
                };

                kill = false;

                conversionThread.Start();
            }
        }
    }

private void Run() { while (!kill) { //get next conversion taks from blocking collection Task task = conversions.Take();

            lock (task)
            {
                //run taks on thread that called RunSynchronously method
                task.RunSynchronously();

                //notify caller thread that task is completed
                Monitor.Pulse(task);
            }
        }
    }