From: Peter Laurens <peterlaurenspublic@...>
Date: 2007-10-31T06:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance: system() vs. Garbage Collection or Thread C

> Kernel.system forks and execs a new process for the command (via the
> C library version of system()) so I don't see how threads in the
> jmeter process could be affected at all by anything Ruby is doing.
> In fact Ruby isn't really 'doing' anything other then waiting for
> the child process to complete.

That's excellent info, thankyou. It will help a lot in what I choose to 
focus on in terms of debugging efforts.
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