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@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 > 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
