[Buffalo-pm] Multi-Threaded Perl...

[DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI]

Yeah, I did. Wasn't really sure which way was better though. I figured
I'd gather my facts and compare. Thoughts?

The OS is Linux (it'll probably end up with FC3).

-Dan

>>> "Shaun Griffith" <sgriffit at gennum.com> 06/13/05 4:18 PM >>>
Instead of multi-threading, have you thought of forking?

What OS are you on?

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> Behalf Of DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI
> Sent: June 13, 2005 4:09 PM
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> Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Multi-Threaded Perl...
> 
> 
> Mongers,
> 
> I am in the planning stages of writing a program that will 
> make queries
> to a device (via SNMP), wait for a response, then do 
> something with the
> information received (namely store it into a database), and move on
to
> the next device in the list. Obviously, when having to do 
> this thousands
> of times per a 5 minute time frame, a single threaded program can be
> restricted by the blocking for the I/O Requests. I figured 
> that in order
> to maximize the speed, it would need to be multithreaded. 
> 
> My real question is whether anyone has written any multithreaded
Perl
> programs, along with the pluses and minuses or using Perl for
> multithreading. Hopefully I won't have to use C or C++, in which
case,
> I'd probably rather bang my head against the wall. Although, having
a
> high quality UB Computer Science education, it wouldn't be
impossible
> ;-) 
> 
> Any help or insight would be great! Thanks.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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