From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-07-18T10:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking Sockets

In article <C25E9829-4194-4264-BFEC-EF5D014990B5@grayproductions.net>,
  James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:

> This works for *some* applications.  Unfortunately, I large write can  
> still stall the process.  I wish it wasn't so, but I believe you  
> still need to go with nonblocking IO for a robust setup.

Ruby threads and nonblocking I/O are not exclusive.

How about using the threads with nonblocking I/O?
It should avoid process wide blocking.
-- 
Tanaka Akira