Hi,
I’m trying to learn concurrent programming in Go by writing a key-value store similar to LevelDB. In that, I got stuck with a problem handling multiple go-routines.
I have some data on the memory (RAM) and I have to flush it to disk. To do it asynchronously, I started a go-routine for writing the data to disk so that main go-routine can still do other jobs like processing read and write queries. But as I executed, I observed that, the newly spawned go-routine started executing and stopped at the file write line and switched back to main go-routine. As per my understanding, I think file write is a blocking statement and that’s the reason behind this switch between go-routines. But I’m running it on a 12-core local machine so I expect both go-routines to run parallely. Is there something that I’m missing? Inorder to make it work I had to resort to using sync.WaitGroup to actually make the main go-routine wait until this file write finishes. It would be great if someone can tell if its possible to make these 2 go-routines run parallely.
I’m relatively very new to writing concurrent programs and Go is the first language that I started off with in writing concurrent programs.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!