From: Ashley Sheridan on
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 20:02 -0300, Gabriel Sosa wrote:

> Indeed. This is kinda offtopic but if you put a cron running with a
> loop you will kill your server. I would recomend use libevent + ALARM
> signal to process on a time basis. On the other hand using C would be
> a nice aproach since you can put your script on an sleep mode until
> the next alarm signal is trigered + less resources taken
>
> Saludos
>
> On 3/15/10, Paul M Foster <paulf(a)quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:38:04PM -0000, Alex Major wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks to all for your help on this, it's been very interesting for me to
> >> read.
> >>
> >> The system needs to check arrivals in real time (give or take a second or
> >> two), using a cron job every minute doesn't provide the real time checking
> >> I
> >> would like.
> >>
> >> However, when I then got to thinking about it, wouldn't this be an ideal
> >> solution? I create a PHP script that loops for 60 seconds, checking the
> >> database each second for new entries and processing them (meaning I get
> >> near
> >> real time monitoring), and then have that PHP script called by a cron job
> >> every minute.
> >>
> >> The reason I think that could be a good solution for me, is that if the
> >> PHP
> >> script crashed (for any reason), then at most it's 59 seconds before the
> >> system kicks in again and begins processing all the queued arrivals. If I
> >> coded a PHP script to loop infinitely processing things every second, it's
> >> possible I wouldn't notice a crash for a considerable amount of time. The
> >> proposed solution provides a good fail-safe, I think.
> >>
> >> Does that solution seem sensible? Or overkill?
> >>
> >> Thanks again for your help in this, it's quite novel for me.
> >
> > I would think that the PHP CLI extension would need to be installed on
> > the server for this to work. I don't know that that's common. (I could
> > be completely wrong.)
> >
> > I would recommend coding this in C, because it would use far less
> > resources.
> >
> > Paul
> >
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> Gabriel Sosa
> Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo. - Einstein
>


Using cron won't kill the server! Cron isn't only for scheduled tasks
but repeated ones as well and is perfect for running in the background
on a server all the time.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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