From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,10d1a90a699d6cfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada tasking question References: <20070418201307.18a85fd9@cube.tz.axivion.com> <462688E3.6050105@nowhere.com> <20070419005738.692eeeb6@cube.tz.axivion.com> In-Reply-To: <20070419005738.692eeeb6@cube.tz.axivion.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1176943815 12.201.97.213 (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:50:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:50:15 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:50:15 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15110 Date: 2007-04-19T00:50:15+00:00 List-Id: Stefan Bellon wrote: > > Well, here I seem to have still problems. "In the beginning", it seems > to work very well. Debug output shows that the tasks do work and fetch > new jobs and so on. But as time goes by, some tasks get "lazy" and I > have no idea why. They do not terminate, but do not fetch new jobs > although there are still open buckets to process. You can implement this without access types or values, and it would probably be a good exercise for you to figure out how to do so. I agree with Brukardt that your problem is probably an unreported exception in the task. When tasks die, they do so silently, unless you have arranged for them to be noisy. -- Jeff Carter "Blessed is just about anyone with a vested interest in the status quo." Monty Python's Life of Brian 73