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Re: CPU hog?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Evans)
Mon Jul 28 12:28:50 1997

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:08:20 -0600
From: Mark Evans <mevans@cti-ltd.com>
To: "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org>
Cc: pthreads@MIT.EDU

You're doing something wrong (no offense).  If you send me the
source I'll check it out and see if I can determin what it is.

Andrew N. Edmond wrote:
> 
> I have written a pretty simple mutlithreaded application with
> Pthreads/1.60b6.  There are two threads, one waiting for input from a
> socket, the other processing data received.
> 
> When I run this program (counterd), it's using 100% of the available CPU!
> 
> So, I made another program, just one thread, that simply listens on a
> socket, and does nothing else.  This too is using 100% of the available
> CPU!
> 
> Is there a way to eliminate this behavior?
> 
> Andy
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Mark Evans
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