Getting number of messages in MessageBox

[Marek Janukowicz]

Ali Çehreli wrote:

> On 08/05/2013 04:18 PM, Marek Janukowicz wrote:
>> I'm using std.concurrency message passing and I'd like to check which
>> thread might be a bottleneck. The easiest would be check number of
>> messages piled up for each of them, but I could not find a way to do
>> that. Is it possible? Every detail about MessageBox seems to be hidden...
> 
> Would setMaxMailboxSize() be helpful?
> 
> void setMaxMailboxSize(Tid tid, size_t messages, bool function(Tid)
> onCrowdingDoThis);
> 
> You can set a limit (perhaps that is lower than normal operation) and
> report whenever a particular Tid's MessageBox gets full.

Well, while this could help a little, it's not really what I'm looking for. 
I'd like to dump message counts for various threads periodically and see how 
it fluctuates over time. With the solution you propose I could only check 
how often a certain limit is hit.

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Marek Janukowicz