Re: thread count problem

FROM : Navneet Kumar
DATE : Mon Apr 21 22:25:31 2008

Thanks for the reply.
No, it doesn't affect my app. I was just asking whether it is a problem.

On 22-Apr-08, at 1:52 AM, David Duncan wrote:

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

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> 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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