Most of time, it will not timeout. In these instances, it will not get into the if($@) loop.
It will have the following results for various keywords, $keywords:

Time Ran: 0, Total Count: 3560
Time Ran: 0, Total Count: 7860
Time Ran: 0, Total Count: 17863

For some keywords, it will timeout and it will get into the if($@) loop with results like the followings:

Alarm, Time Ran: 18, Total Count: 0
Alarm, Time Ran: 12, Total Count: 0

They all overshoot the set timeout limit of 5 sec. considerably.

It appears that MySql is doing funny things to SIGALRM.

Questions:

1) Is this problem fixable?

2) The whole purpose of this exercise is to find a way to get out of the MySql operation if it takes longer than 5 sec. to do MySql. Timeout at around 5 sec. not at anything above 5 sec. If above problem is not fixable, meaning we cannot use eval {} to limit MySql time, what can then?

In reply to Re^6: Perl Alarm Not Working by aceofspace
in thread Perl Alarm Not Working by aceofspace

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