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Old 12-11-2013
I am missing something here...

I suggest you re-read JM's and vbe's posts again and absorb what they are saying...

You want realtime access through a cron job to a set of files stored somewhere iside your networking ether that are constantly being read from and written to?

I would have thought your _HDD_ thrashing I/O was the biggest bottleneck assuming that you ARE suggesting real _files_...

This is not an easy task even for the big guns...
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Old 12-11-2013
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Originally Posted by faka
Dear Corona, I need to parse some text files and send the results in more precise or approximate time, 1 second after the data no longer serve because they change constantly.
It is the application's job to tell you when it is done, then. Cron cannot do this, and it is not correct to assume your application is always ready at exactly the right time. What is your application?
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