From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-11-16T14:33:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25386] Re: Is TCPSocket thread safe?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:25274] Re: Is TCPSocket thread safe?"
    on 01/11/16, Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@bluenugget.net> writes:

|I have a fairly large TCPServer implementation that I have created. 
| However, from time to time the whole thing just blocks for up to a 
|minute.  It's fairly rare but quite annoying.  I don't have any calls to 
|gethostbyname() directly..  So I'm not sure what's happening unless some 
|other function in the standard ruby socket library is calling 
|gethostbyname for me.  Are there any other functions that would cause 
|this?  I have the ruby-mysql library included as well where I just do 
|Mysql#query and fetch results from that, I don't see why this would 
|cause a lockup, although it connects via 'localhost' ,that's in 
|/etc/hosts.  Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

  Thread.do_not_reverse_lookup = true

may help.

							matz.