From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-16T05:52:38+09:00
Subject: DRb Crashing

If I launch this server:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require "drb"
require "rinda/tuplespace"

tuplespace = Rinda::TupleSpace.new
DRb.start_service("druby://localhost:61676", tuplespace)

loop do
   nums    = Array.new(rand(9) + 2) { rand(10) + 1 }
   ops     = Array.new(nums.size - 1) { %w{+ - * /}[rand(4)] }
   problem = nums.zip(ops).flatten.compact.join(" ")

   tuplespace.write(["Problem", problem])
   puts tuplespace.take(["Result", String]).last
end

__END__

Then run this client:

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w

require "drb"
require "rinda/tuplespace"

DRb.start_service
tuplespace = Rinda::TupleSpaceProxy.new(
   DRbObject.new_with_uri("druby://localhost:61676")
)

while problem = tuplespace.take(["Problem", %r{^\d+(?: [-+*/] \d+)+$}])
   tuplespace.write(["Result", "#{problem.last} = #{eval  
problem.last}"])
end

__END__

The client crashes, generally within a few seconds.  Adding a sleep  
inside the server loop seems to resolve the issue.

Anyone know why?

James Edward Gray II