C#: console Program/ windows service: low CPU n Memory usage

[PRR]

I have a console program.. which i need to convert to a windows service...
My basic requirement is that the program needs to run in background and consume as less memory n CPU time as possible..I am not a expert in threading .. my guess was to create threads n execute them
to give an example :

public static Thread t2;
public static Thread t11;
 

i declared 2 static threads : which will call 2 function on start of service or in main of comsole Program..

t2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.functionname));          
 
t2.Priority = ThreadPriority.Lowest;//BelowNormal;
 
t2.Start();
 

Secondly i got a: public static System.Timers.T imer t1;
and a static bool variable

public static bool timerOn = true;  // To see to it that  "function" called completes before called again
 
public void fun1(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
            if (timerOn) //static variable to see to that only when one 
// thread comepltes the second thread starts. 
            {
                Thread tt = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.fun11));
                timerOn = false;
                //CreateFolders();
                //tt.Priority = ThreadPriority.BelowNormal.;// which is beetter
                tt.Start();
            }    
}
 
public void fun11()
{
    fun2();
        fun3();
        timeron=true; 
}
 

is this right? am i goin in right direction? I still get my program consuming a good CPU time : sometimes around 20 percent for 4 seconds...

main thing is low cpu usage n low memory consumption...

[joedeene]

how about also making the threads background....

t2.background = true

does that help ?

and did you figure out how to make it a service, i didnt read it all..

joedeene

[PRR]

how about also making the threads background....

t2.background = true

does that help ?

and did you figure out how to make it a service, i didnt read it all..

joedeene

Thanks for that.. i had forgotten to add that .... guess it may make a difference... i wanna know how to add threading to console/service program to optimize performance.... (given the fact that the code is fairly optimized)
Making a console to service is not a issue... i have already done that before..

[vekipeki]

Setting a thread's Background property to true does not affect its priority, it only tells CLR to kill it if is still running after your entry thread has ended.

The CPU time will depend on your fun2 and fun3 methods, which are not listed so it is hard to tell what is actually going on. If their priority is low or high, the CPU will still execute them if there is nothing else to do.

If you want to pause your low-priority threads to have low CPU during all times, you can add

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(ms); // where ms is the minimum number of milliseconds to wait before continuing

inside your worker loops.