Questions tagged [multithreading]
Multi-threading related questions including technique, structure, and safety issues.
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Unit test which asserts that current thread is the main thread
The question is does it make sense to write a unit test which asserts that the current thread is the main thread? Pros/cons?
Recently I've seen the unit test which asserts the current thread for the ...
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Is a race condition with no downside still a race condition?
I am writing a piece of code which takes the difference between two numbers, finds that location in memory, and then sets the location to true.
Currently my method of performing this is as follows. ...
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Can I produce a deadlock with a single thread? aka. What is a deadlock?
This expands on "Deadlock in Single threaded application" on StackOverflow.
That question was not really conclusive and I think it better belongs here.
By the definition of a deadlock, is it ...
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Is it okay to start a thread from within a constructor of a class
This is purely a design philosophy question in the context of C++.
Is it a okay design philosophy to start a thread from within a constructor? I have a library whose sole responsibility is to ...
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Synchronization method vs private final object for locking in java
Can anyone tell me which one is better approach between synchronization method and private final object in java and why ??
public class kclass {
private final Object myObject = new Object();
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UML how to model parallel activity with runtime-dependent number of participants
I want to model an activity that involves processing several items in parallel. So to speak, I want to find a Activity Diagram representation for something like the following snippet / pseudocode:
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Periodically update files from s3 in a Java maven library used as Packaged JAR
I have an application say x which uses another Java library(say Y) as a JAR file . So y basically needs to download a file and load it into memory before any of it's methods are called at runtime by X....
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How to document multithreaded applications
I'm working as a support engineer, having access to the source code, and I'd like to use this opportunity to document the source code, but I stumble on a first question: how do I even start?
For ...
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Request for a service that takes a long time to execute
I'd like to train neural networks by making HTTP requests, which in turn train the model. Now, this might take a while with fetching data, processing, training and evaluating the network. I was ...
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C++, Threads, Classes and Conflicts
This is a concept related question.
I'm writing a program polling for alerts on various devices, there are two different type of alerts i need to poll, reds and oranges.
My approach is to create two ...
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How to use lock-free FIFOs in multi-threading?
Computer-science wisdom says that a lock-free FIFO (queue) is the right way to synchronize shared data between two threads in a lock-free manner. I know what a queue is and how the lock-free property ...
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Is the meaning of `const` still thread-safe in C++11?
I recently came across Herb Sutter's video from about how the meaning of const and mutable has changed in C++11 to mean bitwise const (and thread-safe, as a consequence) instead of the traditional ...
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How to design thread safe class when separating business logic from POCOs
I like to separate business logic out of POCOs into controllers.
If an object must be thread safe, where do I put the lock code? In the POCO itself? Or in a controller?
Might make sense because ...
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Multithreading ( thread per area ) for an MMO server, good idea?
As a personal project, I'm setting up a MMO, and writing the server in C#/.NET Core.
As of now my architecture is as follows: The world exists of different areas ( you can go from area to area trough ...
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`set-then-get` vs `get-then-set` in context of race condition?
I have recently came across approaches to set-then-get and get-then-set in context of race condition in multithreading.
My understanding :- set-then-get is the same approached in java concurrent ...
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Daemon vs worker and when to use what?
(Note that, below, I am frequently using term "daemon or worker" just to indicate that I dont know which word to use as I dont know the exact difference between them in the context explained below.)
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Android Multiple Threads for I/O Operations in Room
I have a small example that i run on a real device with 4+4 cores.
ExecutorService service = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(4);
for(int i =0 ; i<1000; i++){
Runnable task = new Runnable() {
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Using python on a Raspberry Pi, how do I record video and keep reading other sensors simultaneously?
For my system I would like to record constantly, which independently I can do. Additionally, I need to be constantly reading some sensors (using SPI), which independently I can also do.
My present ...
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Should this part of my web-app implemented on server-side or client-side?
I want to write an application which monitors a few URLs (like a couple hundred) of all branches of school. By monitoring, we mean that it sends requests to those URLs at regular intervals (Interval ...
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How would you design a “multithreaded” LRU cache using C++ (unordered_map and Linkedlist)?
Please note that this is about a thread-safe LRU cache (not simply a LRU cache as specified in https://leetcode.com/problems/lru-cache/description/). It isn't a duplicate of LRU cache design question ...
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Sequential or parallel access to hard disk in multithread program?
In multi threaded java program, I initiate four concurrent threads with below details
1. Thread 1 writing file F1
2. Thread 2 writing file F2
3. Thread 3 reading file F3
4. Thread 4 reading ...
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Design of a Python “service” using multiprocessing and threading
Due to the Global Interpreter Lock, multithreading in Python does not affect parallelism. This limitation is avoided in the multiprocessing library by spawning new processes instead. But threading ...
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Long response times vs. concurrency issues on a multithreaded web server
A class with a slow initialization used to process a request leads to long response times. But the actual method used is quite fast. Should the class be static, I guess it would need to process a ...
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Number of thread: Computation intensive vs IO intensive operations?
I came across below statement at this blog
Computation intensive operations should use a number of threads lower than or equal to the number of cores, while IO intensive operations like copying ...
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Should I inject a Thread.sleeper as a dependency to make unit test easer?
I have a repeated pattern in my code that is not easy to test: classes that execute periodically. Just to simplify things lets say assume something like:
while( running ){
long millisToWait = ...
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Using a Boolean to cancel thread
I asked a similar question to this on SO, but after re-reading it this morning, I realized it wasn't clear what I'm asking. So I narrowed down my problem and realized it was about a pattern instead of ...
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producer-Consumer with Signaling Architecture in a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS)
I'm developing a real-time system by making use of an mbed-OS (RTOS for ARM architecture). I'm not a software engineer and I want to know whether the following solution is practical or not, and how to ...
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Multi-threaded socket chat server design
I've a general question about the design of a multi-threaded chat server application written in Java. At the moment I've the following structure:
ConnectionController class which handles the I/O ...
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Struggling with implementing synchronization or concurrency
In my app two components A and B, have their data and state based on the data and state of a 3rd component, component C:
Both A and B can change the data of component C.
Both A and B listen to ...
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Embedded Systems: Designing an API that monitors an address
This question was tossed as a starting point in a technical interview at a semi-conductor company. I guess there are no right ans - the purpose of this open ended question is to gauge the engineer's ...
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Examples for bidirectional and unidirectional relationships between objects
To better demonstrate the difficulties of reading/updating objects in a multithreaded environment, I'm looking for examples for groups of objects with a bidirectional or unidirectional relationship ...
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What tasks does a memory barrier enforces other than preventing the re-ordering of instructions?
I know that a memory barrier prevents the re-ordering of instruction from before to after and from after to before the memory barrier, for example if I have the following instructions:
instruction 1
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Reading huge (up to 32 GB) file in multithreading env?
Goal:
1) huge file read in chunks each 1 MB long, 2) each one gets compressed and written to an another output file.
Note: I am limited to .Net 3.5 only.
Is there a known pattern how to parallelize ...
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What is an “active thread” in Java?
From this discussion, there are two opinions of what Thread#activeCount() returns.
An "active thread" is actually executing bytecode. It is a thread that was started and is not waiting on IO or on a ...
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.Net - “Thread is blocked/waiting” meaning for I/O bound operation
Caller waiting for method to return back and till it is not returning, we can say thread is waiting, right ? However, this behaviour is because that inner method is waiting for some other operation or ...
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copying of memory vs pointer to memory in real time systems
While working in a multi-threaded environment, then data sharing seems to be a good option to pass data between threads.
While working with real time systems it is apparently advisable to go with ...
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Best practice for exception handling in Java threads
long-time reader, first-time asker here. I have a service which writes data to a database in batches. It contains a buffer which is being watched by a separate thread. Whenever the buffer reaches a ...
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Using inner classes to achieve thread-safe behavior without synchronization
I have some classes that contains both immutable (primitive & references) and mutable data, but mutability come from external writes (another process).
To avoid using synchronized on every ...
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Is it better to listen on multiple ports than listening on single port?
In my server, I have 1000 threads that are listening to 1000 different UDP sockets. When a thread receives a packet it puts the UDP packets on a thread-safe queue. The code is like this.
while(...
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Architecture for working with several devices
I create an application for a system, which consists of several different devices, each of which should be controlled by a computer via one of standard hardware interfaces and could be accessed via ...
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Inter-system communication design on Windows (C++)
I was wanting to create a program consisting of 3 elements:
A central component with no UI which will work on HTTP traffic and trigger one or more “worker” elements as needed
A monitor component ...
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Is there a better approach for mass balances processing
My task is to process asynchronously balance deltas for multiple clients and provide aggregated balance amounts.
I have a REST service which accepts requests from N clients C₁…Cₙ, each of them has ...
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How to handle multiple calls to webservice?
I got a REST webservice and it has a simple method like;
public void processItem(Item item);
Problem is processItem method takes too long to complete nearly 1 minute) and there can be multiple calls ...
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Simple solution for calling a function only on one thread, queuing waiting calls?
Let’s assume there is a function EventHandler that is called on multiple threads at different points in time.
EventHandler has to call SomeOtherFunction, but these calls shall only happen on one ...
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Patterns for pre-emptive background work scheduling
Here is problem I hope the community can help me analyze:
I want to execute a set of jobs with one background worker (or several). Whenever a job is done, a message is fired, and a listener on the ...
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Threaded batching algorithm
Ok, I'm working on DynamoDb-based caching. We have an API where each call costs us real money and the information retrieved is "fresh" for 2-3 weeks, so it makes sense to cache it.
There's no ...
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Best software architecture for a PC application with a number of short and long running tasks
This is probably going to expose my lack of software experience but I'm looking for advice on a suitable software architecture and mechanisms (threads etc.) by which I can achieve the following...
(...
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How are queues made thread-safe in Python
I admit this was asked to me in interview a long time ago, but I never bothered to check it.
The question was simple, how does Python make Queue thread-safe?
My answer was, because of Interpreter ...
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How to dispatch these functions in Objective C to not lock Main thread?
There's a large shared object (kind of OpenGL context) in my project.
It is accessed from multiple threads.
To ensure only one thread at the moments is using SHARED_OBJECT, mutex (kind of ...
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How to decouple a message broker and its message handlers?
Project description:
I have a nodejs project where I try to build a bluetooth mesh like network,
each node consists roughly of 4 parts the frontend part, the message broker, a bluetooth client and a ...
