On fredag, mar 21, 2003, at 17:39 Europe/Stockholm, Chen, Allen wrote:
Hi everyone,
Some have been wondering if anyone has used ithreads in a production
application yet. Well, I have on a fairly hefty application (125+ threads)
on a hefty box (4-cpu linux with 4G physical RAM). It's working well,
although the memory leak problem is very apparent. I've ended up restarting
the program once a day to prevent it from dying in an inelegant manner.
The memory leaks should be fixed with perl 5.8.1 release.
Anyway, I'm very interested in Elizabeth's forks.pm module. I'm wondering
how it compares to ithreads. I see that forks is much better with memory,
but how about performance? Besides memory usage, is there any reason to use
one over the other?
I would say without benchmarking that memory usage is much better since it does copy on write, but since it uses sockets to communicate shared variables they aren't really, for all purposes shared but more like distributed.
And one last question: will Thread::Queue and Thread::Semaphore work with
forks.pm?
No idea.
Arthur
