Boost::this_thread::sleep(0) should not "pause the thread"; it should just return immediately. There have been bug reports posted about boost::this_thread::sleep hanging, so it may be that you have hit this bug --- if so, I would be grateful of more details as I have been unable to reproduce it myself.
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