title: Maximum Amount of Time A Thread Can Run?
body: <p>I have a web service that creates a thread to process some data in the background.  I've seen a "System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted" message in one of my logs where the thread was killed.  I am currently under the assumption that the thread will run as long as it takes to execute the tasks that it's working on, however after googling the exeception I've seen several posts making mention of increasing the ExecutionTimeOut property of the application in the web.config file.  My question is:</p>
  
  <p><strong>What is the maximum execution time of a thread executed in ASP.NET?  Is this timeout unlimited or still bound by the ExecutionTimeOut property of the application?</strong></p>