Need microsecond delay in .NET app for throttling UDP multicast transmission rate

Question

I\'m writing a UDP multicast client/server pair in C# and I need a delay on the order of 50-100 µsec (microseconds) to throttle the server transmission rate. This helps to a

Answer 1

I would discourage using spin loop as it consumes and creates blocking thread. thread.sleep is better, it doesn't use processor resource during sleep, it just slice the time. Try it, and you'll see from task manager how the CPU usage spike with the spin loop.