On 4 Dec 2012, at 18:31, "jonat...@mugginsoft.com" <jonat...@mugginsoft.com> 
wrote:

>  
> 
> On 4 Dec 2012, at 10:29, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote:
> 
>> My app creates lots of MyOperations (subclass of NSOperation) and puts them 
>> into an NSOperationQueue.
>> 
>> I would expect that the app thus remains responsive, but sometimes it is not.
>> 
>> A sure way to beach-ball my app is: start it with a few hundred operations 
>> (which will take about 20 seconds to finish). 
>> Make some other app active. 
>> Try to make my app active again - it's panel stays grey and after a few 
>> seconds the cursor will turn into a beach-ball.
>> 
>> These MyOperations interact with their controller in two ways:
>> 
>> 1. they do once at start:  [ controller dataStringFor: row ];
>> 
>> The controller has:
>> 
>> - (NSString *) dataStringFor: (NSUInteger)row
>> {
>>      @synchronized(self) 
>>      {
>>              if ( self.stringArray == nil ) { create it - takes some time, 
>> but happens only once};   
>>      }
>>      return self.stringArray[row];
>> }
>> 
> Does the app also access the controller object?
The controller is also the app delegate.

> You are locking the controller so the main app's performance may also be 
> affected if the controller is shared with the main thread.
The code inside @synchronized is absolute minimal. I will be used every 50 
milli-seconds. Cannot believe this blocks the controller.
> 
> 
> In the absence of Instruments I would at least experiment with no oping the 
> @synchronized methods and try and exclude them as a problem source.
Did comment out both @synchronized lines - same problem - no change at all.

Kind regards,

Gerriet.


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