Re: Sleep has high cpu (sleep spins madly behind the scenes)

[ybiC]

In addition to brothers BUU and BrowserUk's apt wisdom, you may find this node by good monk Albannach to be of interest:

"while(1){} isn't idle, it's spinning madly behind the scenes, testing 1 as often as possible."

    cheers,
    Don
    striving toward Perl Adept
    (it's pronounced "why-bick")

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[UnderMine]

Some time ago I needed to have that kind of spinning (scanning large number of connections on a chat room for activity) but under low load, in the middle of the night, the same code killed the machine.

I found using Time::HiRes to put a micro sleep inversely proportional to the number of active connections stopped the process from spinning out of control and allowed the OS to pre-empt the loop.

Thanks

UnderMine