Interesting.  I used JRuby (1.5.3) and the ffi gem (0.6.3 /
rubygems.org).  Works just peachy.  I ran it at 50 and then 100
iterations.  Everything seems to get along.

sgonyea@skg:~/Sites/gsolr$ ruby bench.rb http://toddler.tomkittens.com:8080/solr
"hi"
Rehearsal ------------------------------------
 GSolr
  4.626000   0.000000   4.626000 (  4.626000)
 RSolr
  9.435000   0.000000   9.435000 (  9.436000)
-------------------------- total: 14.061000sec

       user     system      total        real
 GSolr
  3.523000   0.000000   3.523000 (  3.523000)
 RSolr
  8.903000   0.000000   8.903000 (  8.903000)
sgonyea@skg:~/Sites/gsolr$ ruby bench.rb http://toddler.tomkittens.com:8080/solr
"hi"
Rehearsal ------------------------------------
 GSolr
  8.134000   0.000000   8.134000 (  8.134000)
 RSolr
 18.710000   0.000000  18.710000 ( 18.710000)
-------------------------- total: 26.844000sec

       user     system      total        real
 GSolr
  6.805000   0.000000   6.805000 (  6.805000)
 RSolr
 17.557000   0.000000  17.557000 ( 17.557000)

Scott

On Nov 11, 11:01 pm, Scott Gonyea <gon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Strange.  I replied in my e-mail, but it didn't post.  Hoping it
> wasn't plugged up in Google somewhere.  Here's what I wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure it does.  I ran into another issue, while using the
> FFI from Github:
>
> https://gist.github.com/673816
>
> I'm checking the values, all along the way, and I'm not handing it any
> nils, but it won't believe me. The ffi 0.6.3 gem won't complain about
> this (but it will blow up at a few spots).
>
> Sigh :(  Thank you very much, for your help.
>
> Scott
>
> On Nov 11, 10:21 pm, Wayne Meissner <wmeiss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>

> > Thats interesting.

>

> > Does curl use threads internally?  If so, build the ffi gem from
> > github and try that.  Earlier versions don't deal well with callbacks
> > coming from non-ruby threads.

>

> > Also try running it with JRuby.  It handles threads a lot better.

>

> > On 12 November 2010 15:25, Scott Gonyea <gon...@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> > >https://gist.github.com/673753

>

> > > That will show you the script I'm running, the gdb backtrace, and ruby-
> > > prof (if that helps at all).  I basically was benchmarking my library
> > > with the one I started branching from.  It's all good, until I start
> > > running a whole lot of iterations.  I made some changes, which seems
> > > to have made it less frequent... until I up the number of iterations.

>

> > >https://github.com/aitrus/curl_ffi/commit/99a231aea24b2d7d63bccaa5c23...

>

> > > That was the one fix.  This GSolr junk of mine uses StreamlyFFI and
> > > CurlFFI:

>

> > > StreamlyFFI:https://github.com/aitrus/streamly_ffi
> > > CurlFFI:https://github.com/aitrus/curl_ffi

>

> > > Scott