From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@...>
Date: 2004-10-20T21:40:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Popen and operations failing later

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 01:15:56PM +0900, David G. Andersen scribed:
> A few more details about the problem I've been having with
> a bad interaction between popen and various other calls.  To
> recap briefly:
> 
>      res = do a mysql query
> 
>     while (line = get_next_line)
>  **   something = res.fetch_row
>       .. do some work

  Just as a followup - bug located.  One of the tables ended
up blocking on read for a long time, causing the mysql server
to time out its connection after 60 seconds (net_write_timeout
variable in mysql server).  Of course, there was no informative
message like "hey, my connection timed out."  No ruby bug.  Go ruby! :)

  -Dave