timeout on a valid long process

schulerlab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there any way to build a Pause or something into a routine to keep a rebuild of a large database from timing out? Something that tells the system that the process is not in an endless loop, but is just in a long processing routine?

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Re: timeout on a valid long process by b10m (Vicar) on Sep 07, 2006 at 19:14 UTC
Who's timing it out? A webserver? If so, just read up on auto flushing ($\|) and print some null bytes (`\0`) to the browser every now and then, to keep the connection alive. Update: ... and you can read a column by merlyn on watching long processes through CGI. -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply]
Re^2: timeout on a valid long process by schulerlab (Initiate) on Sep 08, 2006 at 01:54 UTC
Thanks. I will check into this.	[reply]
Re: timeout on a valid long process by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 07, 2006 at 18:32 UTC
What system needs to be told? DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: timeout on a valid long process by schulerlab (Initiate) on Sep 08, 2006 at 01:52 UTC
you mean what type of server? this program runs on different types of servers. Mostly Apache servers. The process is rebuilding a database. Not a problem for a database that isn't huge. but the process timesout for databases of around 50k messages. Even though there is really nothing wrong with the program.	[reply]
Re^3: timeout on a valid long process by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2006 at 17:34 UTC
Look at the `Timeout` keyword in the Apache config file. You can also dump \0 characters to the client periodically to ensure that it does not time out (vs the server timing out). --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: timeout on a valid long process by schulerlab (Initiate) on Sep 08, 2006 at 02:00 UTC
oh my.. my reputation is 0! what would my mother say?	[reply]

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