Re: thread count problem

FROM : David Duncan
DATE : Mon Apr 21 22:22:32 2008

On Apr 21, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Nick Rogers wrote:

> when I run my cocoa app, Activity monitor shows it having 2 threads, 
> and thats ok, cause I'm running one POSIX thread with the start of 
> the app and which remains till the app is exited.
> The problem is when I detach a new NSThread, from which I'm calling 
> "performSelectorOnMainThread:" frequently, the thread count goes to 
> 4. and when this new NSThread finishes, the thread count comes to 3 
> and not 2. And it stays 3.
>
> Is there something wrong?


Does this cause problems for your application? Mac OS X will spawn 
threads on behalf of your application to perform certain activities 
and this is generally beyond your control. This should typically be 
completely transparent to you.
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David Duncan
Apple DTS Animation and Printing
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