> Phrased differently: do threads which exited, > but who weren't joined use up any resources?
Yes (memory, but not cpu). It sounds like you are creating one thread per request, and the threads now stay alive until the end of the program. One solution is to have the threads exit (via the pthread_join mechanism, of course) when they have finished the current request. Another (very common) solution is not to create one thread per request, but instead have a small set of worker threads, each one to handle many requests over the life of the program. A "master" thread accepts requests, and gives each one to one of the worker threads. Only if there are no available worker threads does it create new threads. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
