Operations Beachball
Operations Beachball
- Subject: Operations Beachball
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:29:14 +0700
My app creates lots of MyOperations (subclass of NSOperation) and puts them into an NSOperationQueue.
I would expect that the app thus remains responsive, but sometimes it is not.
A sure way to beach-ball my app is: start it with a few hundred operations (which will take about 20 seconds to finish).
Make some other app active.
Try to make my app active again - it's panel stays grey and after a few seconds the cursor will turn into a beach-ball.
These MyOperations interact with their controller in two ways:
1. they do once at start: [ controller dataStringFor: row ];
The controller has:
- (NSString *) dataStringFor: (NSUInteger)row
{
@synchronized(self)
{
if ( self.stringArray == nil ) { create it - takes some time, but happens only once};
}
return self.stringArray[row];
}
2. When MyOperations have finished their work they call: [ controller done: row result: someNumber ];
The controller has:
- (void) done: (NSUInteger) row result: (NSUInteger) someNumber
{
@synchronized(self)
{
[ self.rowsToDo removeIndex: row ]; // NSMutableIndexSet
};
// sometimes do some logging, update user interface - but only every few seconds
}
So, why the beach-ball? What am I doing wrong? How to debug this? Why does the app-switch make the beach-ball appear?
Gerriet.
10.8.2, Arc
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