Hi Monks,

I've been 'dabbling' with trying to write a threaded perl script. I thought I would try with something simple, just to get the ball rolling, or what I thought would be simple, please see the code below. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::SNMP;
use threads;
use Config;



 $Config{usethreads} or die "Recompile Perl with threads to run this p
+rogram.";

threads->new(\&polldevice,"192.168.1.50", "public");
threads->new(\&polldevice,"192.168.1.1", "public");


sub polldevice {

my ($host, $community) = @_;
($session,$error) = Net::SNMP->session(Hostname => $host,
                                       Community => $community);


die "session error: $error" unless ($session);

$result = $session->get_request("1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0", "1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.
+0", "1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0");

die "request error: ".$session->error unless (defined $result);

$session->close;

print "Testing ".$host."\n";
sleep 10;
print "Number of interfaces: ".$result->{"1.3.6.1.2.1.2.1.0"}."\n";
print "uptime: ".$result->{"1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0"}."\n";
print "sysOID: ".$result->{"1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0"}."\n";
}

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The hope was that both devices would be polled at the same time, I was using the 'sleep 10' to try and proove this. The Code works fine when I pass in the polling details 1 by 1. When I run it all I get is,

A thread exited while 3 threads were running.

And nothing else gets printed to the window. I've even tried doing it in a 'use Threads' style, but keep seeming to get the same problem.

I'm using 5.8.8 on SUSE Linux 10.1 RC1.

I would be extremely grateful for any guidance

Thanks

Dave

In reply to Just can't get threads to work by stellagoddc

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