How to use a thread to respond a web request?

[Polaris]

Hi:

I have some lengthy operations need to be finished before I can respond to
client's request. Just wonder, is it possible to use a thread of my own to
respond to client's web request? As a result, the client's request will not
be blocked by the lengthy operation, when the thread gets client's request
it will respond to the client request using only available existing results
without waiting for the lengthy operation to finish. I tried to put the
lngthy operation in a thread but found out that it did not take full
advantage of the CPU cycles even I set the scheduling priority to the
heighest.

Thanks for any info.

 

[Alvin Bruney]

why don't you have the main thread respond to the client request and do the
lengthy request on a worker thread. This way, the main thread, UI thread, is
always available to cause the application to be reponsive while work is
being done in the back ground.