On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:37:17PM -0500, Colin Murtaugh wrote: > I'm trying to use Event.pm to do some pretty basic event handling > (watching for incoming data on a named pipe, and eventually some timers) > but I keep having trouble with CPU usage. Seems that once the loop > starts, my script uses all available cpu. The script I'm using to test > with is below. What am I doing wrong?
My guess is that files are always readable whether there is new data or not. Instead you should poll for new data every fraction of a second, similar to "tail -f". -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org
