Running cron tab scripts

  • adiakritos

    (@adiakritos)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi everyone! I need to write a script that will run periodically automatically, although each time the script runs it’ll take a while to complete. It will be downloading a huge public zip file, open, and parse that file for information to update our records. My question is, what would be a generally good strategy to doing this?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    7 years, 8 months ago

    It might be best to run that directly from a real cron and not make it part of the internal cron tasks.

    Thread Starter adiakritos

    (@adiakritos)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve been reading about delegating the task to an existing daemon in order to avoid having the process put everything else on hold or timeout. Does this makes sense? I don’t know exactly what a daemon is or how these processes work (I’m researching this currently), but I’ve been told that running the script directly from a cron task will halt everything else. I’ll test locally to confirm this..

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 8 months ago

    no, it won’t halt everything, though if it’s CPU or network intensive, it may slow your site while it’s running.

    Thread Starter adiakritos

    (@adiakritos)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I’ll try this out. thanks for replying!

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