Sam Roberts wrote: > Can anybody give me any hints as to what I should be looking for? What > can cause sleep(0) to wake up? > > I've got a thread that does > > loop do > sleep(delay) > > ... do stuff, then set delay to 0 because there is no more work .... > > delay = 0 > end > > > And my loop is busy looping, sleep just won't! > > Whether it does or not is triggered by changes in what appear to me to > be completely unrelated code. I'm mystified. Silly question: Is there another thread active at the same time? I don't think a thread can sleep if it's the only one...