[dba-VB] Thread.sleep

Salakhetdinov Shamil mcp2004 at mail.ru
Wed Apr 4 14:46:32 CDT 2012


Hi John,

GC is abbreviation for Garbage Collector.
Learning to be concise here :)

Thank you.

-- Shamil


Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:10:54 -0400 от jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>:
> LOL.  GC?  What is GC?
> 
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> 
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
> 
> On 4/4/2012 12:41 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
> > GC ?
> >
> >
> > Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:02:28 -0400 от jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>:
> >> I am baffled by what I am seeing in my threaded program.  I start a thread which basically pulls
> >> data from SQL Server.  It does so then does a thread.sleep(10000) which should sleep for 10000 ms
> >> (10 seconds).  During the sleep, the processor usage jumps to roughly 25%.
> >>
> >> That indicates that the sleep enables something else to go bonkers but what is that "something else"
> >> and why does it depend on this thread sleeping?  I really don't want my app consuming 25% of the
> >> processor sleeping.
> >>
> >> On Google I see this question posted on many venues but no real answer.
> >>
> >> In fact I decided that what I was really trying to accomplish was provided by a timer class so I am
> >> in the process of rewriting my code to use the timer.  I did it in one place and it works well, no
> >> more do while / thread.sleep for me.
> >>
> >> I'd still like to know what caused the system to spike CPU usage when the thread was sleeping though.
> >>
> >> --
> >> John W. Colby
> >> Colby Consulting
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> >> Reality is what refuses to go away
> >> when you do not believe in it
> >>
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