Re: Stable, CPU-friendly periodic task scheduling
Re: Stable, CPU-friendly periodic task scheduling
- Subject: Re: Stable, CPU-friendly periodic task scheduling
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 11:07:30 +0200
At 22:21 +0200 7/04/01, SeaSoft Systems wrote:
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I need to automate the creation of a small file every 24 hours on a
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server machine, so I am looking for the most cpu-efficient and stable
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means of doing this.
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Obviously, stability and efficiency are the principal considerations
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for this job.
There are certainly lots of solutions.
Smile, and its commercial cousin SMI (mainly installed in industrial
plants), are used on applications for which stability is an issue. SMI
will, e.g., store a small set of new files each hour, and it will do so for
months, 24/7. Smile itself is used on machines which are never restarted as
a server of backup and of mail.
Smile 1.7.5 on OS 8.6 is a configuration particularly widely tested and stable.
That's why I would advise particularly to use Smile 1.7.5 if that's
compatible with your constraints.
Emmanuel