Re: thread stuck in send()

From:
"PaulH" <paul.heil@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
3 Oct 2006 13:55:24 -0700
Message-ID:
<1159908924.338489.188210@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>
Terry G wrote:

"PaulH" wrote:

I have a multi-threaded client app where each client thread does
something like this:

TestThread()
{
 SOCKET sd= socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);
 /*...*/
 while (running)
 {
   DWORD dwStartTime = GetTickCount();
   send(sd, pBuf, BufSize, 0);
   DWORD dwTotalTime = GetTickCount() - dwStartTime;

   TRACE(_T("Socket %d took %dms\n"), sd, dwTotalTime);
   //... calculate throughput and record results ...
 }
 /*...*/
}

The trouble is that when I watch the throughput for each test, I'll see
that socket 1 will be running for a long time, and then socket 2 will
take over for a while, and then back to socket 1. The beginning of each
time a new socket takes over will be marked with a really long time
(like 13+ seconds for a chunk of data that should take around 100ms).


Try putting Sleep(0) in your loop to yield to another thread.
terry


I have tried that. I've actually had up to Sleep(50) without much help.
I don't think it's a matter of the thread yeilding time.

-PaulH

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