[AGENT++] proper way to shutdown an agent

[Mo Po]

On 06/07/2011 11:37 AM, Jochen Katz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I am getting a core dump when the agent exits (is shut down), such as in:
>>
>> I suspect the problem is that the above get bulk requests is still
>> being processed (asynchronously) while the application is exiting and
>> destructors are called.
>
> yes, you are right.
>
>> What is the proper way to shut down a multi-threaded agent?
>
> Add the following code after the main loop:
>
> #ifdef AGENTPP_USE_THREAD_POOL
> 	ThreadPool *threadPool = mib->get_thread_pool();
> 	if (threadPool)
> 	{
> 	  int loops = 0;
> 	  while (!threadPool->is_idle())
> 	  {
> 	    Thread::sleep(500);
> 	    loops++;
> 	    if (loops>  10)
> 	    {
> 	      LOG_BEGIN(loggerModuleName, INFO_LOG | 1);
> 	      LOG("Still waiting for active requests to finish");
> 	      LOG_END;
> 	      loops = 0;
> 	    }
> 	  }
> 	}
> #endif


Jochen,

Thanks a lot!

So I gather that checking e.g. request_list-is_empty() is not enough, 
and I should use the code above, right?

Regards.
Mo Po

>
> Regards,
>    Jochen
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