From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-09-25T06:14:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads, do_nanosleep and battery life

> Hi all,
> 
> Can you share some more details on how exactly it was addressed? I
> have a multi-threaded Ruby daemon that has nothing to do with Gtk, and
> it exhibits the same behaviour: 100 calls to do_nanosleep per second.
> The deamon is a DRb based object cache, the whole source is these two
> files, 191 lines total:
> 
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/samizdat/samizdat/lib/samizdat/cache.rb?revision=1.99
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/samizdat/samizdat/bin/samizdat-drb-server?revision=1.99
> 
> This definitely looks like a generic Ruby issue to me, but if there is
> a workaround, I don't mind applying it on the application level.
> 
> [ sorry for waking up this really old thread, but Google tells me that
> is the only case where Ruby do_nanosleep issue was addressed ]

http://groups.google.com/group/never-block/browse_thread/thread/b806a8443ffb5f45?hl=en 
explains a little on how Ruby does threading.
GL!
-=R
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