QtConcurrent::map uses 100% of CPU

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As Gerolf said it depends upon what you are asking to be done in the worker threads. Post some code...

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Well, i have the function "executeAllActiveTasks" that takes a string as an argument and calls a function "requestandsaveData", this function does a snmp-get to an specific device and waits until the data is available and then saves the data in a file. The following is the code for "executeAllActiveTasks"

@void executeAllActiveTasks(QString tname)
{
// double val;
QDir path( "./databases/" );

task *t = tasks.value(tname);
RCDevice *d = devices.value(t->device_id());

       if(t!=NULL || t->status()!=STARTED || d!=NULL)
       {
           Metrics.value(t->metricType())->requestAndSaveData(d,path.absolutePath()+ QString("/") +t->taskName()+QString(".rrd"),t->metricType(),t->metricParams(),0);
       }

}@

I call that function with the following code, where "taskActivesByThread" it is a QStringList...

@watcher.setFuture(QtConcurrent::map(tasksActivesByThread,executeAllActiveTasks));
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giesbert

how long running is his task?

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It is up to the size of the "taskActivesByThread" and the time to get the response of the devices, it could be one minute or even more. The application works fine, but I just want to know if any other alternative methods would produce 100% of CPU while the polling is active...

baysmith

Possibly something is in an active wait state, meaning it is constantly querying to see if the results are ready.

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Well, yesss..they are waiting for the results to be ready, but just because a thread is in an active state will produce a huge increment in the cpu?

baysmith

If the thread is in an active wait state (for example waiting for a spin lock), yes. If the thread is in an inactive wait state (for example waiting for a conditional variable), no.

What does snmp-get do and is it thread safe?

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It is thread safe...the snmp get is really a "QProcess" calling the libraries of the net-snmp, so i need the wait until the "QProcess" finish to captutre the data...

baysmith

How is it waiting for the QProcess to finish and how is it capturing the data?

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It's something like this...

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QProcess snmpGet;
snmpGet.start(program,params);

if (snmpGet.waitForStarted())
{
if (!snmpGet.waitForFinished())
{
return INVALID_VALUE;
}
QString output(snmpGet.readAll());
//Then i have to parsing the data to obtain the data...

}else{

return INVALID_VALUE
}

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baysmith

Nothing seems wrong with what you've described so far. If you interrupt it in a debugger when the CPU is at 100%, where does it break?

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Profile it and see where the profiler says the cpu is spending all of its time.