Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Here is the scenario. I have a global hash variable in mod_perl and I use IPC::Shareable module to control the content.To begin with the hash variable is loaded with values from the database by calling a function x(). And I want to call this function every 30 minutes to get the latest from the DB. How would I do that? I am using Apache/mod_perl. Any help is appreciated..

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Re: Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2005 at 17:34 UTC
Use Cache::FastMmap. It handles the expiration and is many times faster than IPC::Shareable.	[reply]
Re^2: Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2005 at 20:20 UTC
Thanks for your help. I looked at the Cache::FastMmap and it also says BerkeleyDB is the best overall for these kind of processing. I read the BDB document but is there a method (similar to expiration time) in BerkeleyDB that can be used to refresh the information. Also Can I do the following? Write a C app (that will run external from Apache/ModPerl) that will store the information in the BDB and put the CApp in a cronjob to refresh it every 20 minutes? Then all I will do in the perl section is just read the data. I am a newbie and I would appreciate your help.	[reply]
Re^3: Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2005 at 21:43 UTC
I think you'd be better off with Cache::FastMmap because it handles the expiration and can automatically fetch new values from the database when the cached data expires (see the read_cb() method). With BerkeleyDB you would have to do that yourself.	[reply]
Re: Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl by edan (Curate) on Feb 06, 2005 at 08:50 UTC
Is there a reason you're reinventing the wheel? -- edan	[reply]
Re^2: Calling a function in a defined time interval in mod perl by perrin (Chancellor) on Feb 06, 2005 at 17:33 UTC
Don't use Apache::Cache. It is much slower than other cache modules, or even MySQL.	[reply]