Ron Foster wrote: > > You might take a look at SizedQueue. There's a good description of it in > "The Ruby Programming Language" book. Thanks, I will check that out... > > I did notice, as forwarned, that the performance degraded after a while > using the native ruby threads. If you're on Windows, though, you might > give IronRuby a fling (or Jruby if it's installed). Those switch over to > their framework's Thread classes, and worked very well. Given the reasonable amount of tasks I expect to handle, some degradation may be acceptable... but I may test with IronRuby or JRuby anyway just for the experience. :-) The thing that has held me back with both to this point has be the lack of support for native gems or suitable alternatives to the ones I need... RMagick, in particular. Thanks for the tips! Tim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.