Re: examples/thread_usage.pl

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Joe Smith said:
>  > muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
>  >
> > > On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Ross McFarland wrote:
> >
> > > have a look. comments/questions/problems let me know.
> >
> > ok...  you use an idle at default priority...  this will leave the main
> > thread nearly pegging the processor.
> >
> > the two easiest options:  give the idle a lower priority (which is a
> > higher number), or use a timeout instead.
> > ...
>
> Just a data point: I couldn't find a priority value that didn't peg my
> cpu.  Anyone have different results?  I'm probably doing something wrong.

very much the case. the example in cvs has the idle changed to a timeout
running at 200 ms or something like that.

Glib::Timeout->add (250, sub {...});

-rm