RE: [GD-General] responsive threading

[Mat N. \(BUNGIE\) <mat...@mi...>]

What else are you doing on the IO thread to make it eat up so much CPU
time?

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-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
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Andras Balogh
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:44 AM
To: gam...@li...
Subject: [GD-General] responsive threading

I'm developing a graphics application, that I want to be very=20
responsive, very smooth, all the time! The rendering is pretty simple,=20
the framerate is high and stable, so I just lock to vsync, and=20
everything moves beautifully smooth! The CPU usage for this thread is=20
always below 10%.

However, I also have another thread, that has to do some heavy work.=20
This thread does tons of IO operations, and also makes the CPU sweat!

There is no synchronization between the two threads, so they should be=20
able to run independently. Still, I'm experienceing sudden spikes in the

framerate, when the second thread is really hammering. What could be the

reason for this? Is it possible to do something about it, to regain the=20
continuous framerate? I'm really not interested in the performance of=20
the second thread, I just want my first thread to run as smooth as=20
possible! I've tried lowering the priority for the second thread, and it

does help, but there are still some spikes. Is it possible that it's=20
Windows itself doing some operations at higher priority, like memory=20
management, IO stuff, and the likes?

Thanks,


Andras


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