php - re-indexing a search engine every few minutes

Question

I'm running a search service on my development computer, and I have to run an indexer (.exe file) and restart a service every 1-5 minutes (I'm using sphinx search). How would I go about doing this in Windows? My thought is to run a batch file through windows task scheduler, but what do you do?

Answer 1

Use Windows Task Scheduler while in Windows. Use cron while in Linux.

Otherwise, you could write a daemon process which would sleep in an infinite loop for a specified interval and re-index once the interval is over. Then again, it would sleep and continue the process.

For example (in Perl):

#!perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Proc::Daemon;

Proc::Daemon::Init;

my $minutes = 5;
my $seconds = 60 * $minutes;

while (1) {
    sleep($seconds);
    # Do necessary work
}

Answer 2

我发现 pycron 作为内置任务调度程序的替代品非常有用。如果你习惯了 unix cron 风格，你会从一开始就爱上它。它有一个可编辑的配置文件和日志文件以及更多选项。

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