cron job every 20 seconds?

Richard

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Mar 7, 2010, 5:58:48 AM3/7/10

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How can I get a cron job to run every 20 seconds? Run 3 identical ones
every minute?

Richard

Sapan Bhatia

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Mar 7, 2010, 12:07:02 PM3/7/10

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Hi Richard, You might want to look at the Task Queue API. You could
for instance make your job schedule itself at T+20 seconds as a task,
after making sure that T+20 > the timestamp of the last scheduling of
the job. Then have a "monitor" cron job check every once in a while
that the chain didn't break because of some exception, and if so then
reschedule it at the next appropriate time.

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Blake

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Mar 7, 2010, 2:33:36 PM3/7/10

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This'll probably keep your JVM awake :)

On Mar 7, 12:07 pm, Sapan Bhatia <gwsa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Richard, You might want to look at the Task Queue API. You could
> for instance make your job schedule itself at T+20 seconds as a task,
> after making sure that T+20 > the timestamp of the last scheduling of
> the job. Then have a "monitor" cron job check every once in a while
> that the chain didn't break because of some exception, and if so then