You're right. At the time I did not consider the cost of creating and destroying the thread every ten minutes. Reflecting back on the problem with your comment

You're right. At the time I did not consider the cost of creating and destroying the thread every ten minutes. Reflecting back on the problem with your comment in mind, the module I wrote could have expected the consumer pass in the thread pool, rather than the module managing it's own pool for something that runs every 10 minutes.