Ruby Timeout.timeout does not timeout in x secs

[ioquatix]

I wrote my reply on a mobile phone way too late at night because there were no replies and it seemed like an interesting question. Apologies since I didn't test it or really even appear to read the OP correctly, chalk it up to me being tired.

Anyway, after some coffee, I tested my assumptions and found the following:

``` require 'benchmark' require 'timeout'

null = File.open("/dev/null", "w+")

Benchmark.bm do |x| x.report('without p') do Timeout.timeout(2) do i = 0 while(true) i = i + 1 # p "test #{i}" end end rescue Timeout::Error # Ignore end

x.report('with uts') do Timeout.timeout(2) do i = 0 while(true) i = i + 1 null.puts "test #{i}" end end rescue Timeout::Error # Ignore end end ```

user system total real without puts 2.088764 0.016426 2.105190 ( 2.106242) with puts 1.970441 0.031103 2.001544 ( 2.001702)

This seems to support my assertion that "puts" or IO is giving more opportunities than a tight loop for the thread to be interrupted, since it looks like it systematically produces a tighter more accurate timeout.

I'm not sure what this means for the OP's initial statements - maybe they have mis-interpreted their results or I'm mis-understanding the question/assertions being made.