Have you considered using POE ? If you have Time::HiRes installed, POE::Kernel will use it for timed events. And your code will be much shorter, with more elegant structure, and thus easier to maintain.

Here is a simple scheduler example: 

use POE;
 
$DELAY = 0.5;  # every half a second
 
sub do_something {
    my $kernel = $_[KERNEL];
 
    print "Hello boy..\n";
 
    $kernel->delay('wake_up!', $DELAY);
}
 
POE::Session->new(
    _start      => sub {
            my $kernel = $_[KERNEL];
 
            $kernel->delay('wake_up!', $DELAY);
            print "Session is started..\n";
        },
    _stop       => sub {
            print "Session is stopped.\n";
        },
    'wake_up!'   => \&do_something,
);
 
$poe_kernel->run;

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: a scheduler by pope
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