Replace ThreadDumpAddresses with a timer. #1787

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   jgarzik commented at 6:21 AM on September 5, 2012: contributor

   Wanted to eliminate a silly thread that does nothing but waste system resources as a poor man's cron.

   boost.asio also has deadline_timer, which is worth investigating.

2. Add timer, timer list classes. 09e44bb0df
3. Replace ThreadDumpAddresses with a timer. 5cb618146c
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   jgarzik commented at 6:21 AM on September 5, 2012: contributor

   Note not intended for 0.7.

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   laanwj commented at 5:22 AM on September 6, 2012: member

   Investigating boost.asio sounds like a good idea, before we build it entirely from scratch.

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   BitcoinPullTester commented at 4:14 AM on September 7, 2012: none

   Automatic sanity-testing: PASSED, see http://jenkins.bluematt.me/pull-tester/5cb618146cedc7630513afb016ef386e6bd4f172 for binaries and test log.

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   sipa commented at 2:55 PM on September 28, 2012: member

   Looks like a lot of code for a feature that should be standard. I assume it will be easier using boost::asio?

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   jgarzik commented at 3:58 PM on September 28, 2012: contributor

   Most likely we can use boost.asio deadline_timer... but that requires moving the "io_service" from RPC into the core code, so that non-RPC code may take advantage of the async I/O engine (and the timers that lie within).

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   luke-jr commented at 5:57 AM on November 13, 2012: member

   Needs rebase.

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    jgarzik commented at 2:41 AM on November 16, 2012: contributor

    closing, self-meh.

    should consider boost deadline timer, rather than creating threads for same.

11. jgarzik closed this on Nov 16, 2012

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