Re: CPU load 100% threading issue

From:
Andrew <at1970@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:27:03 +0300
Message-ID:
<egzzFBMtHHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
SeeAnu wrote:

We use timer thread in our code, for monitoring Directories and doing
some file management operations. the application is a Namespace
extension.
When it is run on Dual core or Dual processor systems everything seems
to work fine, but when is run on normal processor systems, CPU
utilization is going high. (after working some time CPU utilization
becomes 100%, this is shared between Explore.exe and CSRSS.exe)

snapshot of our code:

g_Inst.m_ptrTimer=SetTimer(NULL,0,1000,TimerProc);
    MSG msg;
    while(GetMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0) >0)
    {
        TranslateMessage(&msg);
        DispatchMessage(&msg);
// I have added the below line after going through some articles on
CPU uitilization....this also didn't help at
        ::Sleep(1);
    }

    KillTimer(NULL,g_Inst.m_ptrTimer);
    ---------
Any help/inputs for this is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Anu


Hi Anu
seems for your purposes will be better use functions from "Directory
Management Functions" family
see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363950.aspx
for details.
Pay your attention to "Obtaining Directory Change Notifications" article
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365261.aspx)
It's a nice example about monitoring folder changes.

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