Re: Usage of gtk_main_iteration_do ()

[Brett Nash <nash nash nu>]

> What are the chances that this will be the only process ? - in any
> regularlinux intallation we have more than 100 daemon running on the
> background anyhow.

However most, if not all, should be sleeping.

        nash

> 
> Harring.
> --- Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> > Russell Shaw wrote:
> > > Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> > > 
> > >>
> > >>  If you need to do something based on time, why can't you use 
> > >> g_timeout_add ?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I wanted only for the loop to run once every time slice of the linux 
> > > scheduler.
> > > I found the ideal function is sched_yield():
> > > 
> > > while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
> > >   a_non_blocking_function();
> > >   sched_yield();
> > > }
> > 
> > On second thoughts, the cpu would spin if this is the only process.
> > Might be better to just sleep for 100ms.
> > 
> > while(!gtk_main_iteration_do(0)){  // non-blocking
> >    a_non_blocking_function();
> >    poll(NULL,0,100);
> > }
> > 
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Brett Nash <nash@nash.nu>
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