Threads and Timeout in Socket Networking

[byuu]

Question:

does creating a timeout in a thread that loops infinitely would help in reducing the lag or CPU usage?

The Implementation is this:

we have a method thread that loops infinitely waiting for a connection. but it costs a lot of CPU usage. is there any way to decrease it's CPU usage? possibly by creating timeouts of the thread? or is there in any way to efficiency of the code?

[danielstoner]

Don't make the thread loop infinitely, make it wait until it is notified the connection is there.

[gogoc]

you can add some sleep in between the loop so that it waits for some time or if a listener is available then you can go for listener
thread notify and wait is also helpful