From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-10-26T16:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: threads

On 26/10/06, Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:10, Brad Tilley wrote:
> > What are reasonable limits on threads? Say I'm scanning a class b
> > network (roughly 65K hosts). How would you break up the threads? I seem
> > to get too many execution expired errors if I have more than 500 hosts
> > in one thread. It seems to work best with 256 groups of 256 hosts each
> > or 254 if you exclude the 0's and 255's
> >
> > What are reasonable limits when working with threads in Ruby? Any tips?
>
> No tips there... it always depends on the task on hand - just use what works
> for you :)
>
>

You might try using a MapReduce/DRb based approach instead of threads.
Have a look at Starfish (http://rufy.com/starfish/doc/) for ideas.

Farrel