snippet.rb

    # Wtf?  If you aren't multithreaded, Thread.current == Thread.mainm 
    # why on earth would you ever want to turn this off? oh, and it defaults off
    def request_info(request, parser)  #:nodoc:
      thread = @params[:multi_thread] ? Thread.current : Thread.main
      thread[:ec2_connection] ||= Rightscale::HttpConnection.new(:exception => AwsError, :logger => @logger)
      request_info_impl(thread[:ec2_connection], @@bench, request, parser)
    end