Subj : many producers/one consumer
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Keith O
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 11:51 pm

Hi,

I have a many producers(threads) that add data to a queue and one
consumer(thread) that reads from the queue and writes the data to a
database.

What is a good algorithm to handle this sort of thing. The thing that's
bugging me is when the producers finish producing data and exit, I want the
consumer to know that it should stop checking for new data and exit.

I'm using the C# for this.

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