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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Sent from my mobile device Gabriel Sosa Si buscas resultados distintos, no hagas siempre lo mismo. - Einstein -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
