From: Brent Rowland <tarod@...>
Date: 2001-04-05T12:55:33+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13502] Re: avoiding network timeout

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arno Erpenbeck" <aerpenbe@uos.de>
maybe somebody can help me with this one: I wrote a prog which fetches
pages from the web with multiple threads. However, the URLs given
sometimes cause a network timeout:

It may not be a good solution for your application, but when I wrote a
load-testing script for my company's dynamic website, I forked new processes
instead of starting new threads, so the operating system would preemptively
schedule my requests.

Brent