Re: [Valgrind-users] RedHat 8.0 pthread "problem"

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

Beau D. Simensen wrote:
> The program I've written is currently doing the following:
>  
>  o Main thread loops, checking a list of remote request handlers to see 
> if one of them needs to be queued up for a client [most of them are 
> scheduled based on time, some of them based on other criteria]. If a 
> request handler is ready to be executed, it pushes a request onto one of 
> two client connection queues.
>  
>  o Two client connection threads wait for new requests to show up in 
> their queues. When one is found, a connection is opened if one isn't 
> already opened, the request is sent to the server, and the response is 
> read. Connection closes after X number of seconds that the connection 
> hasn't been used.

I have to ask -- why are you using threads here?
What you've described would work well, and would
scale better, using nonblocking i/o and sys_epoll...
- Dan

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