CPU utilization time

[mukarj]

Hello
I am having a problem while running my app in a shared environment because it is very cpu intensive. Is there anyway I can get the app to take it easy on the cpu (my coding in sleeps ets).

Here is what is happenning

I have about 16 socket connections , on which I issue a select statement and keep processing the messages from these sockets as and when they are received. The only problem is that I am being flooded with important messages which I handle very well but this sucks the cpu dry, and others on the machine start complaining.
I then resorted to something like this

//Induce a sleep every 4000 msgs to minimize CPU usage
if((mmap_counter%4000 == 0) && !do_not_sleep)
{
     oeslog(log_fp, LOG_STAT, "Sleeping for 4 secs;mmap_counter=%d",mmap_counter);
     sleep(4);
}

Is there an alternate way to do this. I was told by someone that its not good to code in sleeps.

thanks

[wje_lf]

man 2 nice
man 2 setpriority

Hope this helps.