From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2004-02-23T05:18:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick slow when running on a stand-alone system

On Feb 22, 2004, at 01:45, Jim Weirich wrote:

> I've developed a small app for a laptop using Webrick.  It serves 
> pages to
> a local browser.  It works great when the laptop is connected to the
> internet.  But when then laptop is running without an external network
> connection it runs very slowly, with long pauses before serving a 
> page. I
> am guessing it is trying to do some kind of lookup and is timing out.  
> Is
> there a way to disable that behavior.
>
> The problem is occuring on a Windows 98 box running Ruby 1.8.1 (with 
> the
> included Webrick).

Just a hunch... try this at the beginning of the program:

   Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true

I've heard this mentioned as the solution to several previous WEBrick 
problems, and it seems like it might be related to yours.

HTH,


Nathaniel

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