Re: NSURLDownload mysteriously pausing
Re: NSURLDownload mysteriously pausing
- Subject: Re: NSURLDownload mysteriously pausing
- From: Michael Babin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:14:44 -0600
On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Sidney San Martín wrote:
> Greetings!
> I ran into an issue recently where file downloads seemed to take a ridiculous amount of time to finish, or never finished at all. I could reproduce it, even in a stripped-down test application.
>
> The NSURLDownload appears to pause indefinitely whenever there is no other activity in the application. Any activity at all — a key press while the application is in front, moving a window around, etc. — makes it continue for a short amount of time (which can be observed in the log or in Activity Monitor's network activity graph).
>
> Below is the main class of a test application with a main class called downloaderAppDelegate. The issue's reproducible for me by dropping it into a new Xcode Cocoa application project.
>
> What the heck is going on?
To quote from:
<http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/cocoa/reference/Foundation/Classes/NSURLDownload_Class/Reference/Reference.html>
"For the download to work correctly the calling thread’s run loop must be operating in the default run loop mode."
Doing anything out of the ordinary with the run loop?
- Mike
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