From: Christian Reiniger <creinig@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T20:25:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible Bug: Running thread blocks access to /proc/loadavg

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On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:13, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:21:24 +0900,
>
> Christian Reiniger wrote in [ruby-core:03798]:
> >  Linux chrisbig 2.6.9 #3 Tue Nov 23 21:28:15 CET 2004 i686 AMD
> > Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>
> Seems Linux kernel 2.6's issue, its loadavg doesn't implement
> poll function properly.
>
> Simple example in C also blocks at select(2).

Damn. That means I'll have to read the file in a separate process. That's=20
kinda sick :)

Thanks anyway.

Oh -- just found out that  doing a=20

Thread.critical =3D true
=46ile.read(...)
Thread.critical =3D false

works fine. Still not perfect, but much better than forking.

=2D-=20
Christian Reiniger

Age is something that doesn't matter,  unless you are a cheese.
 - Billie Burke

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