Re: Background thread with lower priority

If a GC occurs, all threads in the process are suspended. Doesn't matter
what priority any of the threads are.

Are you sure it is a GC that's causing the non-responsiveness?


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"Jeffry van de Vuurst" <jeffry.cwrmobility@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi,

I have a CF 2.0 app that uses 2 background threads. 1 for polling for a
network connection and 1 for performing a background sync.

First I used the OpenNETCF BackgroundWorker for this purpose. However,
when performing a background sync the UI became unresponsive. Now I
changed it to a regular thead using:
Thread backgroundSyncThread = new Thread(DoBackgroundSync);
backgroundSyncThread.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;
backgroundSyncThread.IsBackground = true;
backgroundSyncThread.Start();

However, I read here
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2004/08/threads-and-threadpriority-with-net.html,
that chaging the priority of threads may be risky because garbage
collection could run on the low priority thread.

It's an article from August 2004 but does mention CF 2.0 beta 1. Does this
still apply? And if so, what are other ways to make sure that the
(potentially long) running background thread doesn't freeze the UI? Is
doing a Thread.Sleep(0) from the worker thread effective? I've read
different stories about the effectiveness of Thread.Sleep(0)...

Thanks,

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Jeffry van de Vuurst
CWR Mobility
www.cwrmobility.com
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