From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T07:25:57+09:00
Subject: wxruby unfriendly to Ruby threads?

I have a GUI application with a bunch of threads proxying network
information around. But the network communication seems very slow if not
stopped. To make sure, I added a "keep alive" thread:

Thread.new do
  loop do
    puts("Keep alive #{Time.now}")
    sleep 1
  end
end

This thread hangs after a little while and stop outputting anything. If
I move the mouse over the window, a bunch of lines are printed by the
keep alive thread, all at once with the same time, and then it hangs
until the next GUI event.

Is this a known problem? Or am I completely misguided?

Guillaume.