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2009 Sep 04
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Mongrel Timeout for System Calls
...onse.
To minimize end-user impact, I wrapped the call with a timeout of 20
seconds.
When I executed a test, it didn''t appear to do anything as the process
still took 120-130 seconds to complete.
After digging around a bit, I discovered this writeup about timeout and
system calls
(http://adamblog.heroku.com/past/2008/6/17/battling_wedged_mongrels_with_a/).
I immediately installed SystemTimer
(http://ph7spot.com/articles/system_timer) and tried again:
begin
require ''system_timer''
MyTimer = SystemTimer
rescue LoadError
require ''timeout''
MyTimer =...