Questions tagged [multithreading]
Multi-threading related questions including technique, structure, and safety issues.
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Would it be possible to abstract multi-threading ability for programs not originaly designed for such?
Would it be feasible to provide (or further) multi-core threading ability for programs that weren't originally designed for such?
And doing so by creating a "virtual" CPU core (or for i7's with ...
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How to avoid deadlock
I have queue of MoveableItems in a class BackgroundTaskQueue (based on example from Microsoft here). Clients call BackgroundTaskQueue.QueueBackgroundWorkItem to add a MoveableItem to the queue.
An ...
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What is the difference between pthread scope vs. policy?
I'm reading OS Concepts for my undergrad OS class and came across this topic: Pthread scheduling (System and Process)
Then I kept reading and came across POSIX Real-Time Scheduling that has two ...
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Developing a C++ program on linux using two threads, always keeping one thread running
The title describes an idea of a solution to a more general problem. Here is the general problem:
I am developing a program which looks roughly as follows:
[read a lot of data, store in data ...
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where to put Read/Write threads in c++ classes
I am programming a UART interface (in LINUX) and I want to use a class for that.
The way I have it right now is I have a method for write and one for read.
The reading is started in a new thread to ...
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Is it good approach to await async tasks in object destructor?
I'm currently working on class with some async tasks under the hood. In fact I need to delegate few tasks to asynchronous execution and be sure that all of them are finished before class was destroyed,...
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Parallel execution: 1 thread pool or N thread pools?
I have a tree generated by configuration.
Each leaf of the tree is a long running task (like DB query, reading from file, etc.) that gives a result I want to store in a mirrored tree with only the ...
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How do you optimally and securely isolate processes when building an operating system from scratch?
I am trying to build software in JavaScript that emulates an operating system. For all intents and purposes, it is an operating system, even though it is JavaScript and we are running in the Node.js ...
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Multiprocessing vs multithreading
During my last job interview which was about half year ago, the technical guy asked me, whether the better option is to use e.g. 100 processes to do some work, or only one process but with 100 threads....
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Implementing a hash table with true concurrency
This was recently a question I was asked in a screening and it got me thinking. I never totally settled on how the conversation ended, and I did some digging. None of the answers I saw seemed ...
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Launch threads continuously with predefined interval between threads
I'm currently using a third-party API to fetch results, using a REST client (Retrofit).
The problem is that the amount of requests per second that I can do to the API is limited with interval: I can'...
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Does accessing RAM from 2 threads double access time (synchronous access)?
As in topic.
If i want to access RAM from 2 different threads, completly different cells in memory, do they queue and are sent asynchronously or queue?
Lets say accessing memory from one thread (...
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Design tips for waiting for a user input while working on another thread
I am working on an application with multiple threads (using Qt, C++). One of this threads is designed to execute a batch of operations like reading/writing from/to files as well as creating new ones. ...
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RS232 3rd party performance using C#
In my work i have an old fashion Vb app..
It's take single sale line(by text change event..) from the input and send it through RS232 output native.
In purpose to get rid from any led display i took a ...
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Misra C, RTOS, and inter-thread communication
Currently I am developing an embedded system, running multiple tasks within an RTOS on a heavily constrained (mainly memory-wise) system.
My team-lead advised the use of dynamic memory allocation. ...
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Best Way To Take multiple TCP Connectons, Read the Incoming Data, and send that Data back into the Main Thread in Golang?
I want to take data from my goroutines and add them back to the main thread/goroutine. Problem is that I need the goroutines to stay open because data can come through the connection at any time in ...
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C++ client-server design
The context
I need to design a Client-Server(-Client) network in C++ that would allow an android application to communicate to a Raspberry Pi and back
I am running everything on linux environment(s) ...
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Where to put use case calling threads in clean architecture?
I've just started using clean architecture, It's clean and nice, but I've found a bit confusing use case.
My application should be able to register to update a token after some time, so I handled ...
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Multithreading with duplicate matrixes? [critique/insight wanted]
I'm working on a video streaming project for drones with opencv where I want to apply multiple stacked image manipulations on a 2D input matrix. I was advised to make all manipulations calls non-...
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How do i call an unreliable API over network? CompletableFutures vs try catch block in Runnable vs something else?
I have to call a critical API over a network (which makes it unreliable) many number of times in a go, many times a day. If the API fails to respond (timeout) or returns an error (because that server ...
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Should I separate send and receive methods into tasks for a CAN-BUS reader on ESP32?
I am developing a CAN-BUS reader (logger) with an ESP32 microcontroller.
This sample uses RTOS and several task to send and receive CAN-BUS messages.
https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tree/master/...
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Name of locking approach
I've seen this approach several times, both in async and multithreaded code. A counter is used to track asynchronous behavior or thread behavior - whenever a new action is started, the counter is ...
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Can a thread acquire another sychronized block if it already has a lock of synchronized block
So my question is if my thread A has acquired access to a synchronized method S1() can it acquire access to another synchronized method S2() or a normal method.
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Pausing threads calling the same method by making them try to lock an already locked mutex
I am confronted to a question regarding synchronisation between threads having shared data. This is a stripped down versino of my class :
class Foo
{
private:
boost::mutex m_mutex;
std:vector&...
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How to send messages in the order they were queued, while ensuring that client B does not have to wait until client A has received his message?
I have a simplified producer/consumer pattern implemented below. The code outputs:
"A"
1 second delay
"B"
1 second delay
"A"
1 second delay
"B"
...
What ...
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Throttling the factory function of a Lazy<T> instantiated with LazyThreadSafetyMode.PublicationOnly
When you use the constructor of Lazy<T> requesting the valueFactory and mode parameters (I mean this one) you can specify LazyThreadSafetyMode.PublicationOnly.
This way you can prevent the Lazy ...
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Having tasks that can be ran individually or “in trees”, and each task can be blocking or non-blocking
I'm creating a framework that needs to execute certain tasks, I'll use building a car as an example for this. So, an individual task could be something like weld metal or screw bolt. But there are ...
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Ensuring Thread Execution Order when Writes Must Occur Before Reads
I'm currently designing a server with the following structure:
A TCP thread pool that receives data from the network
A queue that holds these requests
A worker thread pool of a fixed size that takes ...
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Dealing with interrupt and sleep
I was thinking that I could calmly Thread.sleep() on an interrupted thread. Sonar doesn't think so, of course.
In some circumstates we should waiting for conditions, even if an interrupt occured. Is ...
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Design choice to avoid lock contention
I have a network application F. It receives requests from one (or many) client network function. F can handle multi-client requests using an epoll loop. F maintains a state machine for each client(...
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Are JVM thread dumps a security concern?
When building parallelized applications using Java, a developer sometimes finds himself with a thread being blocked indefinitely because of a four-year-old bug in the spring-bean-web-rest-foo-bar-...
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multithreading - waiting on a condition without using locks (c++11)
i've been wondering about it for a while now but never found any answers. is it possible to use something like a condition variable without a lock?
I have a vector of objects, and a thread pool, and ...
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How to check whether existing code base can deadlock
I'm improving/expanding a somewhat large code base, and I've introduced multithreading into it. But with the possibility of introducing code that could deadlock, which is nigh impossible to test for ...
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What is the typical best practice methodology around transferring money between two distinct systems?
I got this question on an interview the other day and was clueless to what the best practices are for solving it. It's the issue where you have to transfer money between two systems and want to avoid ...
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What do you call a class that can be disabled [closed]
Is there a design pattern that fits this description? A factory that creates classes that can be disabled and enabled. The users of the class don't know if the functionality is enabled or disabled--...
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If the whole point of recursion is to break the problem into multiple smaller problems, what if those problems were solved in parallel?
So I was studying here and I was thinking if the whole point of recursion is to break the problem into multiple smaller problems, what if those problems were solved in parallel? A quick search lead me ...
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Turn an asynchronous delegate pattern into a blocking method
I have to use a built-in API that works like this
class MyAPIWrapper {
func callAPI() {
apiObj.delegate = self
apiObj.doWork() // returns immediately, eventually calls self.delegate....
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Is a physical thread a logical thread (a thread within a process) that a processor context switches to and processes?
What are the distinctions between physical threads and logical threads?
The clearest definition of a physical thread that I understand so far is the one here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...
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How to setup up a background thread/task which triggers UI updates?
Background
I'm designing a round-based game where one of the core design goals is to have a highly exchangable UI. For this, I've defined an interface which allows implementers to only focus on ...
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Why datatypes are marked as thread-safe instead of procedures?
In Rust, Send (or Sync) marker traits are used to indicate whether a value of a type (or a reference to that) can be worked on within threaded context.
However, it is an attribute of a function or a ...
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How to communicate data from a threaded library?
Until recently I was involved in the development of a library to be used for acquiring data from a hardware device via a server application. The server application sends out messages via a ZMQ ...
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Multithreading - 2 active running threads calling each other without blocking itself
I have an implemented UDP receiver which is continuously receiving DTN packets (UDP encapsulated) and performing some operations on them. This whole process is working on a single main thread. However ...
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Wait and wake-up vs. start and join for multithreading
A function that is repeatedly called should do multiple tasks:
request a vector from a server.
calculate a new vector.
send this latter to a server.
append the new vector summed to the downloaded one ...
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Real-world analogy for green threads
I'm giving a talk on concurrency which will cover multithreading, multiprocessing and green threads. I'd like to give simple real-world analogies of single threaded programs, multithreading, ...
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One process using std::thread, 2 physical CPUs, 4 cores each, parallelism level?
Suppose I have a one C++ process, and I want this process to run eight threads in parallel.
And suppose that:
I have a computer with two (2) physical CPUs.
Each CPU has four (4) cores, so that's 4x2 ...
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How could thread safety be provided by a programming language similar to the way memory safety is provided by Java and C#?
Java and C# provide memory safety by checking array bounds and pointer dereferences.
What mechanisms could be implemented into a programming language to prevent the possibility of race conditions and ...
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Strategies for managing a dynamically sized pool of worker processes?
I have a problem to solve that's very much like a thread pool, and I was hoping to hear some strategies or find some resources to information on managing the size of the pool.
Let's say I have the ...
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Design of file I/O -> processing -> file I/O system
I'm in the process of designing a new desktop application which is very different from other stuff I did before, and so I'll be happy if I could be pointed towards the right direction regarding the ...
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Notify Millions of subscribers at the same time(or with min. delay) in C++?
I'm working on a problem, in which i have some real time weather information of different cities through out the world. I'm exposing subscribe function to interested people/clients, with input:- ...
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How to implement a CLI interaction with running java programm? [closed]
I would like your tipps about implemening a command line interface
to interact with a running java application.
Example:
The Java Application is a webserver and a cli-client should interact with it:
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