similar to: fastthread 0.6.1

It looks like I got too creative in 0.6.1 and consequently ran afoul of a bug in the Ruby interpreter. 0.6.2 works around the bug and should be entirely stable at this point. Thanks to Young Hyun for his help in coming up with test cases. == what? fastthread is a Ruby library which provides a faster (and non-memory-leaking) C implementation of the concurrency primitives from stdlib''s

Well, just when I thought I was out of the fastthread business... Okay, in brief: fastthread is a Ruby extension which re-implements the primitives in Ruby''s thread.rb in C. It was merged into 1.8.6, replacing the old thread.rb implementation, but the version that was merged had a couple serious bugs. So -- now I release fastthread 1.0, which is basically the Ruby 1.8.6 version with

== NOW A new version of fastthread, the library providing better implementations of the classes in thread.rb, has been released. Please note that fastthread is only for Ruby 1.8, not JRuby or any other Ruby implementation (most of them don''t need it anyway!). == WHY The existing implementation of Mutex, Queue, etc. in thread.rb is slow. fastthread''s is faster (and bypasses

Heya Folks- This is mainly for Zed and Mentalguy. I have been playing with the new release of rubygems 0.9.0.8 and I have a major problem with the requirement that fastthread needs to be required before thread. Just requiring rubygems and then requiring fastthread right after that will throw the error: ez _blog $ ruby require ''rubygems'' require

Hi, A quick search didn''t explain what fastthread is, and how it relates to mongrel. Why would I want to install fastthread? Thanks, Joe

I''m confused. Wasn''t threading fixed in 1.8.6, negating the need for fastthread? Why is fastthread still a requirement of Mongrel? Just curious. :)

Just a quick note that I''ve committed the bits for fastthread 0.5; the most important differences are that all the thread.rb classes are once again marshallable, and we''ve got Luis'' commit which eliminates some warnings when building on Win32. -mental -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type:

I''ve just committed the makings of fastthread-1.0.2 to SVN, fixing a couple long-standing bugs in 1.0.1: - merged the fix from ruby_1_8 to avoid rb_bugging during exit with waiting threads - SizedQueue#enq is now defined properly Could you or whoever does the signed gems please turn the crank and upload the new gems? Thanks, -mental -------------- next part -------------- A

I''ve just committed fastthread 0.5.3, which finally gives us a working SizedQueue (which hadn''t really ever worked in previous versions). Mostly it was just a matter of refactoring Queue and SizedQueue into a single class behind the scenes, so I could move the signalling of the SizedQueue-specific condition variable inside the queue''s critical section. Failing to do so

With Mongrel 0.3.18, I have not seen a single one of the hangs that I have been grousing about for the past N weeks. Thanks MenTaLguY and Zed! Q: Mongrel loads fastthread, Mongrel loads Rails, Rails loads OCI8, OCI8 requires ''thread''. That means OCI8 is using fastthread too, right? Steve

fastthread is a library which replaces the synchronization primitives defined in stdlib?s thread.rb (Mutex, ConditionVariable, Queue, and SizedQueue) with optimized versions which: * are much faster (in the non-contention case, speed comparable to direct use of Thread.critical or Thread.exclusive) * don?t leak memory (the stdlib implementation of Mutex manages to

Hi All, I have an app making extensive use of Mutex and was concerned about the memory leak I have read about. I saw some sample code to reproduce the problem here: http://pastie.caboo.se/10194 So I thought I would run it myself to see the problem. I do not see a memory leak when using the sample code, but if I require "fastthread" before "thread" using fastthread (0.6.4.1)

Is anybody testing mongrel on ruby 1.9. I just tried installing mongrel on trunk 1.9 and trunk rubygems and got this error compiling fastthread: /Users/stephen/dev/ruby/1.9_trunk/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mongrel --no-rdoc creating Makefile make gcc -I. -I/Users/stephen/dev/ruby/1.9_trunk/include/ruby-1.9/i686-darwin8.10.1 -I/Users/stephen/dev/ruby/1.9_trunk/include/ruby-1.9 -I.

I''m running jruby trunk which has integrated rubygems 1.0.0 and when I try and install mongrel with gem it blows up when the fastthread dependency tries to do a native compilation. I couldn''t find a copy of the gemspec in the svn checkout but looking at the one installed when gem installing mongrel didn''t show any platform differentiation. There is platform

I''ve released fastthread 0.6, which relaxes the order of requires so that fastthread need not be required before thread anymore. Thanks go to Eric and Ezra. -mental -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url :

It looks like fastthread was rolled into 1.8.6: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/v1_8_6/NEWS?revision=12055&view=markup Does that mean once we upgrade to 186 we can forget about rubygem version? - Rob

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Hi guys, I''ve been running mongrel for a while now with Ruby 1.8.4, and last week upgraded to 1.8.6. Since upgrading, each morning when I wake up there''s a big problem: 1. Accessing the site returns a "500 Internal Server Error" 2. All the mongrel_rails processes are still running, but none of them are active (when I run top) 3. Lighttpd and pound are still

Hello Everyone, We''re hard at work getting the hot new win32 service Luis wrote out and ready for production. We''re hoping to have that included in the 1.0 RC1 release we make very soon. This pre-release is just to make sure that we didn''t step on any toes. Install it with: $ gem install fastthread --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases $ gem install

I''m running a site that gets ~30k to 40k page hits per day. In the last 4 days my mongrel processes have been jumping into high CPU usage a couple of times a day to the point where my site becomes unresponsive (database on a diff machine with no load). The only way for me to resolve the problem and reduce load on the machine is to delete my rails cache directory (I have plenty of space