I have a worker thread in my socket server. When I set to the lowest priority, everything works find but it is slow. When I set the priority to Normal, it is much faster but when there is not work and it is in a while loop checking for an item to be added to the queue list, it still hogs up the cpu usuage and my VM slows down. I an new at thread management. How do I use a Mutex or Monitor to make the thread sleep or wait until there is work in the queue.
m_workerThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(ProcessQueueLogs));
m_workerThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
m_workerThread.Start();
private void ProcessQueueLogs()
{
try
{
while (!m_stopServer)
{
if (m_socketListenersList.Count > 0)
{
//Logger.WiteLog("ltsserver getting socketlistener from queue");
// get the first socket in the list
LTSSocketListener workerSocket = RequestQueue(null, false);
//LTSSocketListener workerSocket = (LTSSocketListener)m_socketListenersList[0];
if (workerSocket != null)
{
// start the socket to process the request
workerSocket.StartProcessingRequest();
// close the socket
workerSocket.CloseSocketListener();
//Logger.WriteLog("ltsserver closing socketlistener");
// remove of the socket queue list
RequestQueue(workerSocket, false);
//m_socketListenersList.Remove(workerSocket);
}
}
}
}
catch (SocketException e)
{
EventLog.WriteEntry(m_eventSource, e.Message.ToString());
EventLog.WriteEntry(m_eventSource, e.Message.ToString(), EventLogEntryType.Error, 234);
}
}
Any help is appreciated.