Manuel Tobias Schiller wrote: > I tried to experiment further by adding an idle thread with minimal > priority to the application which simply usleeps 50 ms (blocking all > other threads as well); this approach made the cpu usage drop to about > 35% to 45%, but this is still way above what can be done with blocking > I/O.
If it's acceptable to block all other threads, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use poll() or select() with a 50 ms timeout instead of usleep()? Albeit you probably want a higher timeout to prevent that the process gets unnecessarily scheduled. -- Christian
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