processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread Frank Bax
I have script that takes a very long time to run - hours, sometimes even days (even on a P2-2.8Ghz machine. After loading some data from a database at the beginning (less than a second), the script does no i/o until results are output at the end of script. I'd like to know how the script is

Re: processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread Bob Showalter
Frank Bax wrote: I have script that takes a very long time to run - hours, sometimes even days (even on a P2-2.8Ghz machine. After loading some data from a database at the beginning (less than a second), the script does no i/o until results are output at the end of script. I'd like to know

Re: processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread Jay Savage
On 11/8/05, Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have script that takes a very long time to run - hours, sometimes even days (even on a P2-2.8Ghz machine. After loading some data from a database at the beginning (less than a second), the script does no i/o until results are output at the end

Re: processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread Shawn Corey
Frank Bax wrote: I realise that my subject line might suggest use of cron, but this is not workable unless there is some way for two scripts to communicate with each other. If this could work, the processing script would probably still need a thread to do communication with timer script

RE: processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread Ryan Frantz
-Original Message- From: Shawn Corey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 10:59 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: processing at preset times Frank Bax wrote: I realise that my subject line might suggest use of cron, but this is not workable unless

Re: processing at preset times

2005-11-08 Thread John W. Krahn
Frank Bax wrote: I have script that takes a very long time to run - hours, sometimes even days (even on a P2-2.8Ghz machine. After loading some data from a database at the beginning (less than a second), the script does no i/o until results are output at the end of script. I'd like to know