I have an issue with a long running perl script, which timesout oracle connection.
So I got a requirement to resolve this issue by querying an emplty table at regular intervals to keep the cconnection alive.
So I want to do it in 3 steps inside a script.
1)need to call a method to query a table at regular intervals . how can I do this? using some infinite loop? also how can i exit from it by calling another method to kill it .
$obj->keep_connection_alive()
{
  this method will query a blank table at regular intervals
  
}

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2)At the same time,in parallel with keep_connection_alive(), I need to call another method to load my files. This is the function that takes long time and creates timeout issues
$obj->load_my_file()
3)after loading the files,i need to kill the keep_connection_alive()
$obj->kill_connection()
Can I use some threads? Actually i need a multiprocesssing program that run keep_connection_alive() and load_my_file() in parallel and exit out from keep_connection_alive() when I am done with oad_my_file()
I am new to perl..Any help will be greatly appriciated..Thanks

In reply to multiprocessing in perl by shijumic

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