advice for tailing a file

Scott Wiersdorf scott at ipartner.net
Tue Dec 15 14:34:39 CET 2015


On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 07:25:22PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> Recommend trying to read more than one line from the pipe per wakeup,
> possibly by wrapping in AnyEvent::Handle, which implements just the
> buffering you need for this.
> 
> That will probably obviate the need for the throttle.

Yes, I'll give that a try too. 3/4 of my CPU consumption is in the "do
something with this" but a bare read loop is still taking too much CPU
imo because of the heavy polling here (I assume). Thanks.

Scott
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