Excellent! I will check that out!
- Jim
At 04:31 PM 7/8/2001 -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:20:40PM -0400, Jim Conner wrote:
> > I am writing a script that is quite cool imo once I get it done. But
> > already I am seeing that it takes a ton of system resources. Simply put,
> > the script watches a log file (like tail -f) and then reacts to certain
> > things that occur. I am thinking that the loop that it is in might be
> > taking up all the resources but that doesn't quite jive with my knowledge
> > of how this kind of thing works. Here is a snippet of the resource usage
> > from top(3):
>
>You're using up all those resources because your program is sitting in
>a hard loop. Try inserting a sleep at the bottom of your outer for
>loop. You might also want to take a look at "How do I do a 'tail -f"
>in perl?' in perlfaq5.
>
>Walt
- Jim
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