Re: Problems with Windows threads and cygwin sleep()

[Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at gmx dot net>]

Hello,

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Raul Metsma wrote:

> Ohh never get this right :(
> Actually I am more system administrator than programmer
>
> Lets try again:
> http://rtedev.com/~raul/threads/threads.c
> Compile this program under mingw
> gcc -o threads.exe threads.c
> ./threads 600
>
> now compile
> http://rtedev.com/~raul/threads/main.c
> with cygwin
> and when I execute this, then threads.exe will eat 100% CPU

Ok, it happens here with 400 or more threads. The program eats CPU time
when compiled with Cygwin and without Cygwin (-mno-cygwin). So this
doesn't seem to be related to Cygwin but to Windows itself.

I am running Windows 2000 SP4 on a PIII 1.1 Ghz with 256 Mb of ram.

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