Questions tagged [multithreading]
Multi-threading related questions including technique, structure, and safety issues.
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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 ...
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Multiple API calls potentially spawning multiple Websockets - Threading vs Async
I am designing a program with the flow as outlined below. Note, these are all network calls, there is no system I/O (hard drive).
Initially, multiple independent API calls need to happen - they don'...
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Mqtt multithreaded Java app
I have a Java app which acts like a command server for other devices and communicated with them via MQTT. I want to add a new functionality and don't let my sender class (implemented as a thread) send ...
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Design a service that takes a job and perform operations after certain time lags
Scenario:
Consider a 'listener'(service) which is ready to accept a job and then waits for x minutes after which it must send an email after checking something from database. If the db condition is ...
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What construct do I use to guarantee 100 tasks are running in parallel
I was trying to create an integration test for my service where 100 clients would connect, login, send request, and log all responses for some configurable amount of time.
I was build a class for ...
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Immediately awaiting an asynchronous call [duplicate]
While working on an inherited project, I noticed the original dev(s) created many asynchronous functions that never seem to take advantage of being, well, asynchronous. For example:
// The async ...
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Enhancing the quality & performance by opting for multiple tasks vs single task?
I'm trying to improve the performance, code quality and just make it better in terms of practice overall. I have a server for a game that managers all users connected as well as things like objects ...
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One thread for all database operations or one thread for each db operations?
I am working on a server application that should handle many requests. There is one thread per each request and each request has a Database operation.
Creating connection for each request and doing ...
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Good practice to store runtime data
Cheers guys,
I am quite new to C++, however, I have some years of experience in programming and I am open for challenges :-)
Currently, I am designing a "small" scientific program to perform some ...
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How do I get a program designed to run continuously (converting data on a Serial COM port) to exit?
Problem Statement
I'm writing a C# console program that takes binary data coming in through Serial COM1, converting each byte into ASCII hex, and then outputting those HEX characters out through ...
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Does placing an httpd server in front of a Vert.x application defeats Vert.x's purpose?
I'm watching a talk on Vert.x (not in English) and they say that "the whole architecture needs to be asynchronous from beginning to end", and cites as an example of what not to do putting an Apache ...
