John,

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:18:36 -0500 jchludzinski at worldkey.net wrote:
>>Okay, it sounds like you've got some busy loops somewhere in a
>
>>background thread.  #closeAndDestroy has had trouble with busy 
>>loops in the past.  So as a first try, do the problems go away if 
>>you change the #closeAndDestroy to a simple #destroy?
>
>Yes, I tried switching to #destroy to NO avail.  I creating and 
>destroying the Socket for sending data every time through the loop.  
>Could this be a problem?

Probably not. What is more likely is that somewhere (either in code you wrote or in code that you call) something like this

	[socket isConnected] whileFalse.

or

	[socket dataAvailable] whileFalse.

is happening. It's probably a good time to record what these processes are doing and when.

Cheers,
Bob