[Mono-list] Threading and IO problem

Thu Mar 6 16:43:14 EST 2008

Your problem is that you need to ensure your threads get launched, and
run, on each available processor. As you may have guessed, your best
processor utilization will occur with 8 threads in execution on an 8-way
box.

In version 2.0 of the .NET Framework MS developed an elegant solution
for this. Instead of creating your own threads, you can call
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem and pass it a delegate to a static
function. This will take complete responsibility for allocating threads
from the thread pool, and getting them executed on separate processors.
Your overall CPU utilization will shoot up to 100.

I don't know if this is implemented in Mono.

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