LiveCode equivalent to 'cron' for automated background functions?

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks Andre - good call. 
Following others’ reminders of the single-threaded nature of LCS, I’m trying to rethink data flows as on-demand, to avoid all background tasks.
Best,
Keith

> On 30 Nov 2018, at 12:10, Andre Alves Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Keith,
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>> The examples in the dictionary look potentially useful for a couple of lightweight activities I’d like to have ticking-over in the background on my LC Server, pending page visits.
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> You shouldn't have the CGI engine hogging up like that, thats not how web stuff is supposed to work. First, Apache (or whatever you're running) will kill the process after some seconds if it fails to exit on its own. Second, it is a waste of resources. Imagine that you have this running for every request that is made, so each time a user requests your site, your LC Server engine hangs in the background for a while, hogging up system resources.
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> LC Servers should reply as fast as possible and then exit. If you need a long running process to do some administrative stuff regularly, then, consider building a little script and running that as a real proper cronjob on the server, not tied to visits.
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> Cheers
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> andre
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