Sigh.. why is there always someone....
All I can say is.. if it were a "micro" pause, then how would
you even notice it in the first place?
If you bloody read my original post you would have seen that I DIDN'T
notice the pause unless I was playing a game or watching a video. The
pause was so small that it did not interfere with normal day-to-day
stuff.
Macro = that which is descernable by the body/mind.
Micro = that which is too small to be seen/felt/etc without
instrumentation (such as a microscope..)
Yes Mr. Pedantic those are definitions of the words (probably taken
from that highly unreliable source everyone quotes as gospel truth,
Wikipedia), but you have also demonstrated despite the fact that
you've been programming since 1980 (what this has to do with micro and
macro has yet to be stated) you have no understanding of the actual
concepts.
Sigh
Since you're too busy with your diatribe to actually bother with
something as mundane as understanding the concepts, I'll help you.
Micro comes from a Greek root word that simply means small. In
English it is often used to mean exactly that... small or very small.
If you go look up the word micro in a dictionary... lets take Merriam
Webster for example... micro is defined as "very small, involving
minute quantities or variations" which was exactly the context I used
the word in.
But.. since you're obviously right... what with programming since 1980
and all, you had better go correct the people who use the words
micro-computer since their computers are obviously too small to be
seen without instrumentation. Oh, and the people who do
micro-economics... and those poor people who drive micro-cars in the
Netherlands... oiy, that must be a challenge! Cars so small you need
a microscope to see them... wait... a microscope.. .aaaaahhh.. I'm
caught in a spiral of illogic.
remember... what in the hell is a "micro pause" because I have
never seen that term used before...ever...for anything.
I made it up... .so sue me.
Don't bother replying Mr Kulkis. I filter pedantic twits.
Back on topic... I resolved the problem. I discovered that the micro
pauses were being caused by a failing hard drive. There was a bad
sector on the drive, and the computer was (obviously) struggling with
reading the bad sectors. It was co-incidental that the problem
happened when Ruby was running... most likely because the script that
was being processed needed to access some data on the bad part of the
drive. I backed up the data, and took the failing drive out of
service. Problem solved. No more micro pauses.
C.
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