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gtask: Clarify what counts as ‘too many tasks’ for rate limiting

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However, GLib still can’t guarantee to do rate limiting, as the type of
rate limiting which is appropriate depends on what tasks are being run,
and the GTask thread pool is shared between all tasks (of many different
types) in a process space.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Fixes: #2368
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@ -1528,9 +1528,9 @@ g_task_start_task_thread (GTask *task,
*
* Although GLib currently rate-limits the tasks queued via
* g_task_run_in_thread(), you should not assume that it will always
* do this. If you have a very large number of tasks to run, but don't
* want them to all run at once, you should only queue a limited
* number of them at a time.
* do this. If you have a very large number of tasks to run (several tens of
* tasks), but don't want them to all run at once, you should only queue a
* limited number of them (around ten) at a time.
*
* Since: 2.36
*/