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What happens when your thread pool is completely exhausted?

Tests whether you know new tasks queue up (if a bounded queue has room) or get rejected via the RejectedExecutionHandler once both the pool and queue are full -- and that an unbounded queue just defers the problem into an OOM instead of solving it.

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