Putting the current thread to sleep

Question

I have a unit of work I'm doing in a thread (not the main thread). Under certain circumstances I would like to put this thread to sleep for 10 seconds. Is Thread.Sleep(10000) the most resource efficient way to do this?

Answer 1

Is Thread.Sleep(10000) the most resource efficient way to do this?

Yes in the sense that it is not busy-waiting but giving up the CPU.

But it is wasting a Thread. You shouldn't scale this to many sleeping threads.