Hi,

>From: Johann Hibschman <johann / physics.berkeley.edu>
>Subject: [ruby-talk:12584] irb and CPU usage

> I'm finding that on Solaris irb maxes out the CPU.  It's clearly a
> readline issue, since it only happens when readline is active, but
> beyond that I don't know how to fix it.  Any advice?
> 
> Details:
>   - ruby 1.6.2
>   - readline 2.0
>   - irb 0.6.1
> 
> Any ideas?

I find that the CPU idles in the irb session,
on Solaris 7, Ruby 1.6.x, readline 4.1.
What about upgrading the readline library?

M.Tanaka