From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T09:48:04+09:00
Subject: nuby threading on threads

Hi Friends,

This is my first touch on threads, so be gentle pls :-)

I am trying to execute loop a command by using threads (tested them on
windows and I find them much faster than doing one at a time :). 

However, there are some commands that execuite very long time and are memory
intensive, so I want that I only execute 10 threads at a time.

eg.

LIMIT= 10
tlist = []
loop {
     if tlist.size< LIMIT
        tlist << Thread.new { p "test" }
     else
        sleep 5 
     end
}

Am, I right? Of course, I'm wrong since I tested it; tlist size is steady at
LIMIT. When I view tlist, the threads are dead, so how do I shrink tlist
properly? Will the threads just go away if I delete any item in tlist and
compact tlist? Can anyone give some hints pls?

Thanks.

kind regards -botp