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Re^2: sleeping for a minute

by ikegami (Pope)
on Feb 18, 2010 at 23:47 UTC ( #824057=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: sleeping for a minute
in thread sleeping for a minute

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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Re^3: sleeping for a minute
by aaron.m (Novice) on Feb 19, 2010 at 00:12 UTC
    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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