Top "Blocking" questions

Non-blocking socket with poll

A couple of days ago I had to investigate a problem where my application was showing abnormally high CPU usage …

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Handle a blocking function call in Python

I'm working with the Gnuradio framework. I handle flowgraphs I generate to send/receive signals. These flowgraphs initialize and start, …

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C# : Blocking a function call until condition met

I am developing a C# Winforms application, part of the application will be uploading files to a webserver using AsyncUpload (…

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What are some reasons NetworkStream.Read would hang/block?

MSDN documentation seems to suggest that NetworkStream.Read will always return immediately. If no data is found it returns 0. However, …

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Garbage Collection and Threads

AFAIK when a GC is doing its thing the VM blocks all running threads -- or at least when it …

java clr memory-management blocking garbage-collection

How to detect and measure event loop blocking in node.js?

I'd like to monitor how long each run of the event loop in node.js takes. However I'm uncertain about …

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jQuery UI modal dialog not blocking

I am new to javascript and jQuery. I am trying to implement a modal dialog using jQuery UI widgets. The …

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c++ linux accept() blocking after socket closed

I have a thread that listens for new connections new_fd = accept(Listen_fd, (struct sockaddr *) & their_addr, &…

c++ linux sockets blocking

Java BufferedReader readline blocking?

I want to make an HTTP request and then get the response as sketched here: URLConnection c = new URL("http://…

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Running a WPF control in another thread

I am using a visual control in my project that is from a library that I do not have the …

c# wpf multithreading task-parallel-library blocking