learn2earn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a sensor that generates a webpage automatically, I have written a script that pulls the temperature, I would like to have it run continuously but would prefer it wait a minute between checks for both the devices sake as well as to prevent generating undue memory utilization on the script side, how can I keep it from running for a minute or so, I want it to run all the time, just once a minute.

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Re: sleeping for a minute
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 18, 2010 at 21:05 UTC
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Re: sleeping for a minute
by linuxer (Curate) on Feb 18, 2010 at 21:13 UTC

    And here's a non-perl suggestion:

    If your script runs on a linux or unix-like system, you can create a cronjob, which runs your script every minute.

    In Windows you could set up a scheduled task to do so.

    I'd prefer running the script every minute (by cron or scheduled task) than having it run continuously and sending it regularly to sleep for a minute.

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      Loading perl every 60 seconds seems like a lot of overhead.

      A periodic (but less frequent) watchdog might be the way to go if you wanted extra reliability.

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        I see bot403's point, but I think more along these lines, too. I'd rather just idle for a bit instead of have to start from scratch each time.
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      Why would you prefer that? Just curious...
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        1. In case it dies.
        2. In case it has a memory leak.
        3. In case someone kills it purposely or accidentally
        4. So you dont have to install it to run when the system starts up.
        5. Because making a true daemon or windows service that *behaves well* is a minor PITA
        6. To have more fine grained control on when and how often it runs (day of week, day of month, hours, etc)

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        bot403 listed the reasons I was thinking of (even a few more).

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Re: sleeping for a minute
by kennethk (Abbot) on Feb 18, 2010 at 21:05 UTC
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Re: sleeping for a minute
by zentara (Cardinal) on Feb 19, 2010 at 12:54 UTC
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