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RAqua too hungry of cpu time

4 messages · stefano iacus, Simon Urbanek, Peter Dalgaard

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It seems that RAqua consumes too much cpu time when doing nothing.
I can't see exactly why this is happening. We have few days to fix this 
up. Any idea (after having look at the code) would be fine.

stefano
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On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 10:24 AM, Stefano Iacus wrote:

            
Well, it happens exactly what the code says ;). RAqua is spending all 
the time in those loops like this one:

    while(!InputFinished & !HaveBigBuffer)
         Raqua_ProcessEvents();

(This one comes from Raqua_ReadConsole)

Since in Raqua_ProcessEvents you simply call ReceiveNextEvent with 
kEventDurationNoWait, the function returns almost immediately and is 
called again ... so in effect you are hogging 100% CPU. I'd suggest 
using either some sensible timeout or kEventDurationForever.

Cheers,
Simon

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On Marted?, set 16, 2003, at 11:35 Europe/Rome, Simon Urbanek wrote:

            
yes, kEventDurationForever is only a partial solution as all the timers 
I have setup to refresh the console etc won't work.
Is there any way to let the timer wake-up ReceiveNextEvent when 
kEventDurationForever is set? This will be the solution.

stefano
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Stefano Iacus <jago@mclink.it> writes:
Can't you just set the timeout to 10ms or so? That's basically what
the select() based mechanism for X11 does.