Background process with IN BATCHES OF 1

[tford]

I have a process with FIND ... IN BATCHES OF 1, then it calls another process.

I would like to force it to process in background because it's always a long process. However if I put in a very small number in "if process takes longer than ___ seconds, run process in the background" it still does not run in background.

Any ideas?

[rocketman]

Never worked for me in 9 years Tom. It seems that when the second process is called, AIM thinks the first process is finished so resets the internal timer. When it is returned to the timer starts over.

Have you tried putting a timer on the second process as well?

Ideally, we could do with an explicit "IN BACKGROUND" switch and possibly with a PRIORITY low/medium/high switch . I can think of a couple of my more complex processes with multiple calls to two and more processes which I'd love to have chunner away in the background leaving the user to get on with other things.

[UnionSystems]

We're emulating a background processing queue by having an object BackgroundRun that has attributes
ExecString and Started.

We have a process, periodically called by the AwareIM Scheduler which FINDS BackgroundRun withBackgroundRun.Started UNDEFINED. When found we "EXEC_STRING BackgroundRun.ExecString and assigned a value to BackgroundRun.Started.

This enables us to control how many BackgroundRun processes are called at once and reduces server load spikes.

Would still be great if an AwareIM Process could be assigned a processing 'priority' as per rocketman's request. In particular what we need is LOW Priority.

[ACDC]

Would still be great if an AwareIM Process could be assigned a processing 'priority' as per rocketman's request. In particular what we need is LOW Priority.

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