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in reply to SIGINT Handler

There are a couple options. I've listed them in my order of my personal preference.

  1. Use Windows Task Scheduler instead
  2. Sleep for shorter period of time (implement a more intelligent scheduling algorithm)
  3. Disable safe signal handling. From perlipc:
    If you want the old signal behaviour back regardless of possible memory corruption, set the environment variable PERL_SIGNALS to "unsafe" (a new feature since Perl 5.8.1).