On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Giuliano Colla <giuliano.co...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > Il 03/07/2018 15:14, Marcos Douglas B. Santos ha scritto: > >> Can we sleep a thread for minutes or even hours without any problems? >> The OS will not kill the thread? > > On Linux environment, sample situation on one of our servers: > >> ├─hald───hald-runner─┬─hald-addon-acpi │ ├─hald-addon-keyb │ >> └─2*[hald-addon-stor] 16:27:34 up 567 days, 20:40, 1 user, load average: >> 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 > > > Hald threads are unused since 567 days (they're triggered by the insertion > of new hardware, which never happened on our server) and are still there! > > On Windows a CTRL-ALT-DEL will show you a lot of useless threads activated > at power on, and sleeping since then. > > OS may decide to swap them off, so that activation may be slower, but never > to kill them.
Very interesting! Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
