10.6. Lab 2 - Multithreaded Programming and Synchronization

• Based on the documentation and sample code in Multi-threaded Programming and Bounded Buffer (Producers and Consumers), develop a simulation program of the bounded buffer problem with 10 containers, 6 producers and 6 consumers.

  • Each producer or consumer should run in it’s own thread.

  • Each time a product is produced or consumed, use a random number generator and the sleep() method from the time module to cause the thread to sleep for a random amount of time between 1 and 10 seconds.

    Hint

    Here is a small piece of code that loop for 5 times and each time sleeps for a random about of time.

    import random
    import time
    
    for i in range(5):
        x = random.randrange(1, 10)
        print("x = {}".format(x))
        time.sleep(x)
    

  • Cause each producer and consumer to print when it acquires a container or deposits a container.

  • Maintain a shared buffer that tracks and prints how many containers have been produced and consumed. The producers and consumers should each stop after 30 items have been either produced or consumed.

• Submit a short lab report as a plain text file explaining what you did in the activity and what you learned from doing it. Include your source code in your assignment submission.