Francis, I took a look at EventMachine. It looks very intersting. But it seems that it's primary use is to abstract networking. What are your thoughts on how this could be leveraged for use in the monitoring service I describe above (i.e. manage a large, dynamic queue of jobs and run them at specific intervals). Thanks! - Don Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > Depending on what you're trying to do, a single-threaded approach may > give > you more scalability and performance: > http://rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.