I'm using Gearman for moving stuff to the background. Absolutely 
wonderful stuff and very easy to deploy.


Stefan Koopmanschap schreef:
> Hi Christian,
> The best option for this would be some kind of jobqueue system. There 
> are several options for this, which might or might not fit your solution:
> There is an (old) plugin that I personally have no experience with but 
> might fit your needs which is the sfJobQueuePlugin[1]. The plugin 
> description basically describes your needs:
> This plugins enables job queues into Symfony. Using a job queue can be 
> useful when asynchronised server-side operations have to be performed 
> (periodically grabbing a RSS feed, automatically sending emails, etc.) 
> or in environments without a cron access.
> Alternatively, you could use external job queue systems. The best 
> known to me is the Zend JobQueue which is available in Zend 
> Platform[2]. I have experience with this one, and it seems to work 
> quite fine, though it requires you to have commercial software (and 
> the Zend software can sometimes be a burden). However, it has a lot of 
> nice features that support you in using and handling jobs, and could 
> be a good option if you have budget for commercial software for your 
> server.
> Perhaps if you google around, there are various other alternatives to 
> the above-mentioned two, but these are two that immediately came up 
> for me as serious solutions for what you are trying to do.
> Stefan
> [1]: http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfJobQueuePlugin
> [2]: http://www.zend.com/platform
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Christian Weyand 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     we've built a feature where we need to perform a bunch of external
>     operations (reading rss-feeds) when a user triggers a certain action.
>     This is an asynchronus process, so the user  has not to be bugged
>     while we import/parse the data - and it might take some time until all
>     feeds are parsed..
>
>     Till now we've basicly used "exec(' php %pathtobatchfolder%/
>     doanything.php +someparameters') to initiate the process. The user can
>     browse the page without any drawbacks.. once the script is finished,
>     the user will see the changed information once he visits the same page
>     again.
>
>     Drawback of this solution are the ApacheThread we use for each "exec-
>     process". This might cause some trouble by simply eating all available
>     apache threads if the page is heavily visited... #fail
>
>
>     Now the question to you guys:
>     How're you handling asynchronus tasks in your applications? We're
>     thinking about some solutions right now..
>
>     - use fcgi_php instead of exec, this will save us from wasting
>     ApacheThreads.. one thing we didn't figure out yet: passing parameters
>     to the script we want to execute..
>
>     - don't instantly exec() the script, save the action in the Database
>     and let a cronjob work on them... -> CLI Task, but we're far away from
>     realtime..
>
>     - ... anyone got some hints?
>
>     Greetings,
>     Christian
>
>
>
>
>
> >

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