Re: [gnet] async dns question

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

Tim,

I'm not sure what's going on.  If you're using Linux and pthreads, it's
possible that pthreads allocates a thread for itself to do special
pthreads stuff.  Is the extra thread misbehaving at all - crashing or
using too much CPU or memory?

David


On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tim Muller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using gnet-1.1.4 with glib 1.2.10 in a single-threaded gtk+ program.
>
> I'm trying to do a number of async DNS lookups using
> gnet_inetaddr_new_async(). I believe on my system pthreads are used for that.
>
> The lookup seems to work fine, but in the end I'm always stuck with exactly
> one superfluous thread that doesn't go away even though all lookups are
> finished. It doesn't matter if I'm looking up 20 or only 1 name - it's always
> the first thread created by gnet_inetaddr_new_async() that sticks around.
>
> Is that normal? (I don't really have much clue about threads-stuff)
>
> Cheers
> -Tim
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