I remain confused about a technique that I'm sure is available in Event, but I can't puzzle it out.
Say I have two events, both 'timer' type. One event is a 'heartbeat' report to another process, saying "I'm still alive, and I processed N requests since the last time I talked to you." The other event is (as you might guess), "process some number of things". My problem is that sometimes the second event takes a pretty long time, so long that the first event's scheduled time to run elapses, then elapses again, and sometimes even a third time. As a result, I get reports from this event that look like-- 10:12:42.055 Did 97 things 10:12:42.059 Did 0 things 10:12:42.063 Did 0 things How does an event handler recognize when it has more than one pending event? (Probably using $watcher->pending, if I read the perldoc correctly.) And how can it (the event handler) unqueue the pending events for itself? Just "$watcher->stop and $watcher->start"? Does this have side effects that I need to check for? -- Jeff Boes vox 269.226.9550 ext 24 Database Engineer fax 269.349.9076 Nexcerpt, Inc. http://www.nexcerpt.com ...Nexcerpt... Extend your Expertise
