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POWorkaround on the threads limit in Grand Central Dispatch?
 

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    <p>With <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Performance/Reference/GCD_libdispatch_Ref/Reference/reference.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Grand Central Dispatch</a>, one can easily perform time consuming task on non-main thread, avoid blocking the main thead and keep the UI responsive. Simply by using <code>dispatch_async</code> and perform the task on a global concurrent queue.</p> <pre><code>dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{ // code }); </code></pre> <p>However, something sounds too good to be true like this one usually have their downside. After we use this a lot in our iOS app project, recently we found that there's a 64 thread limit on it. Once we hit the limit, the app will freeze / hang. By pausing the app with Xcode, we can see that the main thread is held by <code>semaphore_wait_trap</code>.</p> <p>Googling on the web confirms that others are encountering this problem too but so far no solution found for this.</p> <blockquote> <p>Dispatch Thread Hard Limit Reached: 64 (too many dispatch threads blocked in synchronous operations)</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14027824/gcd-dispatch-concurrent-queue-freeze-with-dispatch-thread-soft-limit-reached-6">Another stackoverflow question</a> confirms that this problem occur when using <code>dispatch_sync</code> and <code>dispatch_barrier_async</code> too.</p> <p><strong>Question:</strong><br> As the Grand Central Dispatch have a 64 threads limit, is there any workaround for this?</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
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