Before you say CF can't handle it - May I ask your server setup?
Processor speed? RAM? Dual processor or one? Is it in a datacenter? If not how big is the pipe? Because there could be other bottlenecks ... Just a thought ... Cheers, Erika -------------------------------------------------- ##| -----Original Message----- ##| From: James Smith ##| ##| OK, I have a bit of a situation that is now going to ##| require me to learn a new language :-( ##| ##| For some time now we have been checking online prices of ##| our competitors automatically over the Internet to ensure ##| our prices are cheaper. All of our stock control, order ##| processing, etc... Is handled by a CF powered intranet and ##| a MySQL backend. We have reached the stage now where the ##| price check is taking over 2 hours (just) an CF can no ##| longer handle it, it just isn't designed to run a 2 hour ##| template request! ##| ##| Can someone recommend ##| A) The best language to use for this ##| B) A good book to learn from ##| C) A good IDE to code it in? ##| ##| The language should be able to cope with... ##| 1) http requests (similar to a cfhttp) to retrieve the ##| remote web page. ##| 2) regular expressions to search the html for the prices. ##| 3) ODBC to link to the MySQL data source. ##| 4) simple text file management to write lines to a tab ##| delimited text file. ##| 5) http posts to post the finished text file to it's ##| destination (must support https). ##| 6) should cope with running a process for a couple of hours ##| without memory leaks killing the server it's running on. ##| ##| Your suggestions please? ##| ##| -- ##| Jay ##| ##| (\ /) ##| (O.o) ##| (> <) ##| ##| This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him ##| on his way to world domination. ##| ##| ##| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ##| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Studio MX with Flash Pro from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=51 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:162797 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
