Single core Virtual Machine and QtConcurrent::run()
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I've got some code that gets triggered by a QtConcurrent::run( std::bind( myFunc, blah, blah ) ) call.
On non VM systems it works perfectly (since I'm unable to test/find a single core CPU in 2018), and on VMs that are set to 2 or more cores - it works perfectly.
If I set my VM (I've tried on Parallels, VMWare, and Virtual Box - all with the same result) to use a single core, my application works fine until the QtConcurrent::run call - the function that makes the call continues just fine - but the function that is supposed to start running concurrently never starts.
Anybody ever experience this? I'll look into creating a trivial sample - but I've already removed all the code from the triggered function to simply be a call to exit(0) - The code doesn't seem to run.
Thanks :)
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hi
I wondering
if only one thread possible it might fail as then it would have to use
GUI thread and that would lag app.
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It's not "1 thread", it's a single core. A single core can schedule as many threads as a multi-core system. Otherwise the operating system wouldn't boot ;).
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Hi @VRHans ,
I have never had a QtConcurrent::run just NOT run. I have had it take like 15 seconds to start a couple times. This is typically because of all the threads are busy.
A while back, I was doing some simulation work and the API (not Qt) only allocated one thread per core as the default for the thread pool. I could specify more or I could just create a worker thread without using the pool. I asked my mentor why so few threads in the pool. He told me that this was a good rule of thumb for threads vs. cores for an application for real-time programming.
Two questions for you:
- Have you tried setting QThreadPool::maxThreadCount to increase the number of threads?
- Have you checked idealThreadCount ()?
Another idea you could try, is to queue up the operations you want to do in threads and then start a single thread to process the operations. I do this with SQL database access for logs, alerts, and terrain.
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It turns out the problem is that on a single core VM (Parallels, VirtualBox, VMWare) QThreadPool initializes with a max thread count of 1 (when I would presume it should be 2.)
@Buckwheat - I've let it run overnight without the runnable executing.
I presume it's using QThread::idealThreadCount() and it's either not able to discern that it's a single core or it returns an ideal thread count that I would expect for an embedded system - not a desktop.
On desktop systems, every since the advent of hyperthreading, and cores with 2 or more hardware threads, the usual algorithm is # of cores * 2 - meaning the threadpool should have an initial max size of 2.
QThreadPool::globalInstance()->setMaxThreadCount(2) resolves the issue.
