Is the CF scheduler Reliable?
How reliable is the CF Scheduler? For years we have used the infusion mailserver and its Infusion Scheduler App/Service. Its always worked great but since that product is dead/no longer supported, we need to find a new way of running scheduled tasks and adding/removing scheduled task programmatically. In the past I have seen lots of posts about the built in scheduler being unreliable. What I need to know is can the built in scheduler be used reliably for mission critical applications? Thanks for your input! Brook ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348954 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Is the CF scheduler Reliable?
On 6/12/2011 10:25, Brook Davies wrote: How reliable is the CF Scheduler? For years we have used the infusion mailserver and its Infusion Scheduler App/Service. Its always worked great but since that product is dead/no longer supported, we need to find a new way of running scheduled tasks and adding/removing scheduled task programmatically. In the past I have seen lots of posts about the built in scheduler being unreliable. We have no issues with the scheduler and we had the same problem as you being iMS junkies. Set a schedule to run every minute and one second and call the same page that you were calling with your iMS scheduler and it can sort out what really needs to run. BTW, if you are using Railo it can schedule tasks in seconds not minutes. Useful sometimes. -- Yours, Kym Kovan mbcomms.net.au ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348955 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Is the CF scheduler Reliable?
I think the ColdFusion scheduler works great and can be used for mission-critical applications. I don't think you will find too many fundamental complaints about using it, unless perhaps you are looking at complaints from 10 years ago. Occasionally you will see comments about a scheduled task not executing, but I think all of these end up being user error where people don't enter a configuration setting correctly, or they have an error in the page being executed. Other times you will see comments about a task running more than once, but most of these are people forgetting that they set up the same scheduled task on a development or test server. I can't think of too many issues with using the cfscheduler that are not ultimately the result of user error. The daylight saving time clock adjustment can be a source of uncertainty, but this would be the case for any task scheduler. If a page execution takes longer than the scheduled repeating interval, say it takes 15 minutes to run a page that is scheduled to run every five minutes, and there is no multi-threading protection in the code, then this can be another source of problems. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Brook Davies cft...@logiforms.com wrote: How reliable is the CF Scheduler? For years we have used the infusion mailserver and its Infusion Scheduler App/Service. Its always worked great but since that product is dead/no longer supported, we need to find a new way of running scheduled tasks and adding/removing scheduled task programmatically. In the past I have seen lots of posts about the built in scheduler being unreliable. What I need to know is can the built in scheduler be used reliably for mission critical applications? Thanks for your input! Brook ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348956 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Is the CF scheduler Reliable?
Thank you for the replies. Full steam ahead with CF Scheduler. Kym, it's a shame Infusion just vanished into thin air eh? I mean WTF? I loved their software! Briook -Original Message- From: Kym Kovan [mailto:dev-li...@mbcomms.net.au] Sent: December-05-11 3:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Is the CF scheduler Reliable? On 6/12/2011 10:25, Brook Davies wrote: How reliable is the CF Scheduler? For years we have used the infusion mailserver and its Infusion Scheduler App/Service. Its always worked great but since that product is dead/no longer supported, we need to find a new way of running scheduled tasks and adding/removing scheduled task programmatically. In the past I have seen lots of posts about the built in scheduler being unreliable. We have no issues with the scheduler and we had the same problem as you being iMS junkies. Set a schedule to run every minute and one second and call the same page that you were calling with your iMS scheduler and it can sort out what really needs to run. BTW, if you are using Railo it can schedule tasks in seconds not minutes. Useful sometimes. -- Yours, Kym Kovan mbcomms.net.au ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348958 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
