Re: Event and CPU usage while idle

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".

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