[Rd] RAqua too hungry of cpu time

[Stefano Iacus]

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

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

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

>
> Cheers,
> Simon
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