Re: thread stuck in send()
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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