[ace-users] How to spawn threads with high priority

Douglas C. Schmidt schmidt at dre.vanderbilt.edu
Tue Aug 14 09:12:15 CDT 2007


Hi Pshemek,

> I am working on a Quad core computer using ACE on WinXP. 

To ensure that we have proper version/platform/compiler information,
please make sure you fill out the appropriate problem report form
(PRF), which is in

$ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM

or in

$ACE_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM

in older versions of ACE+TAO.  Make sure to include this information
when asking any questions about ACE+TAO since otherwise we have to
"guess" what version/platform/compiler/options you've using, which is
very error-prone and slows down our responsiveness.  If you don't use
the PRF, therefore, it is less likely that someone from the core
ACE+TAO developer team will be able to answer your question.
Naturally, we encourage and appreciate other members of the ACE+TAO
user community who can respond to questions that they have the answers
to.

> I have a few lenghty computations and decided to spawn 4 threads
> doing independent calculations. I activate the threads with priority
> ACE_THR_PRI_OTHER_MAX + 1 and it looks the application never uses
> more than 40% of the quad core CPU. This is quite strange I would
> say since I would expect to to use all availible computational
> power.
>
> Could someone tell me or give a hint what I am doing wrong?

Are you running the threads in real-time scheduling mode?
Please see Chapter 9 of C++NPv1 <www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE/book1>
for more info on this.

Take care,

     Doug
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