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in thread Question about communicating with a running perl script

Thanks for your reply!

So you reckon dedicating a table in the DB where sending "status" values or something and getting the background script to continue polling it?

What's a realistic polling frequency?

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by GotToBTru (Prior) on Jul 06, 2015 at 18:15 UTC
    What's a realistic polling frequency?

    That's a question only the users of the website can answer, I would think. How often is the website refreshing? How long does it take the perl program to run thru the list of tasks?

    Dum Spiro Spero

      I guess i'll have to have a think about that!