From: Wayne Scott <wscott@...>
Date: 2001-02-08T08:59:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10538] Re: threads and resolving names

From: "Joseph McDonald" <joe@vpop.net>
> 
> I thought if I created a bunch of threads that I could get around
> the problem and would only hang when all threads (100) are hung.
> But that doesn't seem to be the case.  Do I have my threading
> wrong?

As other people will answer, this is hard to do with ruby thread.
For this special problem, you get find the program called 'fping'.

http://www.fping.com/

-Wayne