[Live-devel] RTSP connection loss

[Ross Finlayson]

>Hello all,
>
>simple problem - if TCP connection is lost I'm getting 100% CPU usage
>(Win32 and company).
>
>Problem is in liveMedia/RTSPClient.cpp:
>
>void RTSPClient::incomingRequestHandler1() {
>...
>    bytesRead = getResponse1(readBuf, fResponseBufferSize);
>    if (bytesRead == 0) {
>      envir().setResultErrMsg("Failed to read response: ");
>      return;
>    }
>...
>}
>
>if getResponse1() returns 0 (because of connection loss)
>incomingRequestHandler1() simply returns. Since scheduler has nothing
>else to do it will reschedule incomingRequestHandler1() again and again
>thus raising CPU usage to 100%.
>
>I simply insert Sleep(1) before 'return' operator (Win32 sys call) to
>temporary solve problem.
>
>Does anyone have better solution which could be applied to official
>source tree?

Try adding the following, before the "return" statement:
	envir().taskScheduler().turnOffBackgroundReadHandling(fInputSocketNum);

(Let us know if this works; if so, I'll add it to the next code release.)

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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/