From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2007-09-10T09:08:57+09:00 Subject: Re: check if server is alive in drb On Aug 28, 2007, at 2:15 AM, Mr_Tibs wrote: > > My server notifies my client when it finished a job through the > observer method. However, it is possible that the server dies (or the > network connection gets broken), and I need to detect this. I > implemented a thread which continously "pings" (calls a simple > remote_obj.ping) and rescues any exceptions in this method call. Is > there a better solution out there? depending on how many clients there are each one can call a method on the server that never returns (Thread.sleep). if the method ever returns in the client it knows the server has died. this obviously only works for a small number of clients. a @ http://drawohara.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama