Re: Thread Priority

Ah - it's that Sleep() function again !
Calling Sleep(20) in the polling loop calms everything down !
And I can still respond to a pulse >20ms on the I/O line.
Is that the recommended way ? Seems to work fine ...

"Kevin Urben" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am running a thread to monitor the state of an I/O line on a NI PCI 6503
Digital I/O board.
The thread reads the port continuously and waits for a change on the line.
When detected, it fires off a message to the app. message queue to start a
measurement.
It all works fine, except that the thread consumes all the CPU cycles on
one
core when nothing else is happening ! Maybe I shouldn't worry, but on a
laptop that causes the CPU to max out and waste power. I could lower the
thread priority - not sure what that would do. In truth, I probably only
need to read the port 20 times per second. Any suggestions ? Would a timer
be better ?

Thanks for reading !

Kevin






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