From: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@...>
Date: 2008-02-29T13:39:32+09:00
Subject: Sleeping threads don't wake up?

I have the following code:
class Server
    def start_reaper
        @reaper = Thread.new do
            loop do
                sleep 10
                self.clean_workers
                puts "cleaned up"
            end
        end
    end

    # other stuff goes here...
end

server = Server.new
DRb.start_service(nil, server)
server.start_reaper
DRb.thread.join


The problem is that it seems that the loop, well doesn't loop.  It
looks like the thread goes to sleep after one iteration and doesn't
wake up based on the number of times "cleaned up" is printed.
Suggestions?

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