In addition to what Roy Johnson said, change your call to can_read to include the timeout rather then doing a sleep at the bottom of the if block. The complete code could look something like this:

for (;;) {
  if (@ready = $select->can_read(10)) {
    # input waiting on the filehandles in @ready
    foreach $filehandle (@ready) {
       while (<$filehandle>) {
        chomp();
        if (m/^Hello/) { $log->error("This is a hello msg"); }
        else { $log->error("message was not recieved");        }
      }
    }
    $cycles = 0;
  } elsif (++$cycles % 6 == 0) {
    $log->error("No new messages in the last 60 seconds");
  }
}

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