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		coffeemug on June 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array op... Ah, I see. This is a known problem with the performance of the protobuf serialization library we're using in the Ruby driver (see https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/897). It bottlenecks the CPU and should be fixed in the next release. In the meantime, you could try running a multithreaded/multiprocess script -- that would significantly increase throughput. Sorry you ran into this -- it'll be fixed ASAP.

rb2k_ on June 14, 2013 [–]

the driver doesn't seem to be threadsafe and just locks once I start using it in threads :(

coffeemug on June 14, 2013 | [–]

Sorry -- the drivers are meant to be used in a way where you create a new connection in each thread. If you do it this way, things will work.

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