only yield main thread when there isn't anything to do.

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 83c7d797..802ac5ab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2006-05-03  Philipp Sehmisch  <tmw@crushnet.org>
+    * src/main.cpp: only yield main thread when there isn't anything
+    to do.
+
 2006-04-30	Philipp Sehmisch  <tmw@crushnet.org>
 	* src/util/timer.h, src/util/timer.cpp: added a timer class.
 	* src/main.cpp: replced SDL timing with the new timer class.
@@ -411,4 +415,4 @@
 	src/dal/sqlitedataprovider.cpp, src/dal/mysqldataprovider.cpp,
 	src/dal/pqdataprovider.cpp, src/main.cpp, src/client.cpp:
 	Grammar corrections, and a little bit of work on getting the name
-	of the Db.
\ No newline at end of file
+	of the Db.
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index fb0497be..a4114072 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -402,6 +402,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             // - Update all active objects/beings
             state.update(*connectionHandler);
         }
+        else {
+            // when there is nothing to do give away some processor time to 
+            // other tasks
+            sched_yield();
+        };
         
         /*ENetEvent netEvent;
 
@@ -449,11 +454,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                     break;
             }
         }*/
-
-        // We know only about 10 events will happen per second,
-        // so give the CPU a break for a while with pthreads sched_yield
-        // function
-        sched_yield();
     }
 
     LOG_INFO("Received: Quit signal, closing down...", 0)