ahhh, cronjobs!

One of the features of the new platform that I am working on is the ability to automatically retrieve all new seismic activities before the end-user posts that there has been an activity.  This will make the data transfer appear instantaneous to our clients and make us look all-around awesome.

So I have a script designed to run whenever I need it to automatically get any new activities and save them to the local database waiting for the end-user.  I set it up to run every 15 minutes until I got the multitudes of old data into the new platform.  I’m talking ~170,000 activities, and each activity takes about 45-90 seconds to process.

So below is my simple cronjob command to have it run every 15 minutes 24/7/365.

*/15 * * * * php /var/lib/symfony/cron/runcron.php >> /var/lib/symfony/cron/test_cron_log.log

Till Next Time

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