On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 15:36, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > 3. Use a dedicated thread that sleeps until it is time to reconsider the > number of tasks, processes the queue of log messages, does any > adjustment, and then goes back to sleep. This is the most reliable in > terms of getting adjustments made when they are needed, but costs the > overhead of an extra thread that is just managing the thread pool. > > Any views, alternatives? >
If I'm not mistaken, a mostly-time-blocked thread carries very little resource overhead. So I'd lean towards this approach. Cheers, Greg. > Thanks, > > Patricia
