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Any other suggestions on an efficient way to keep the queue full but not too full?

Try my self-limiting queue implementation from the spoiler in Re^4: dynamic number of threads based on CPU utilization.

Set the size to at least 4 times the number of elements as you have consumer threads and then adjust up and down until you hit the sweet spot for your application.

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Re^2: Does the main thread yield?
by Random_Walk (Prior) on Apr 24, 2013 at 08:20 UTC

    Thank you. I will be using that, a much more elegant solution

    Cheers,
    R.

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