Long running processes prevent other processes from responding as quickly as intended. Typically a problem in UI programming, long running processes can prevent the UI from responding to user input.
Questions tagged [long-running-processes]
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Controller actions appear to be synchronous though on different requests?
I am under the impression that the below code should work asynchronously.
However, when I am looking at firebug, I see the requests fired asynchronously, but the results coming back synchronously:
Controller:
[HandleError]
public class…
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Process [sync_supers] using 100% CPU
I've found out the process [sync_supers] running twice, using 100% of cpu each of those.
It was triggered by the user share which is a user to access a share folder used by Samba users. The user share has access only to…
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What will happen when inserting a row during a long running query
I am writing some data loading code that pulls data from a large, slow table in an oracle database. I have read-only access to the data, and do not have the ability to change indexes or affect the speed of the query in any way.
My select statement…
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IntelliJ IDEA + Gradle - How can I log a long running Gradle task run from the IDE?
IntelliJ IDEA sometimes takes a long time to do a Gradle refresh task or run a Gradle task. It will just kinda spin for a long time leaving you wondering how far along it is or if it's even doing anything at all or frozen?
For example this has been…
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Django, Python calling Python code without waiting for response?
I am using Django and am making some long running processes that I am just interacting with through my web user interface. Such as, they would be running all the time, checking a database value every few minutes and stopping only if this has…
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Mechanisms for creating long-running process
Are there alternative mechanism(s) for creating a long-running process besides running an infinite loop?
The common pattern seems to be this:
while True:
# Check for some condition or waiting for some event
# Do some processing
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Offloading strategy for longer-running tasks in Express Routes
I have an application which uses Express as user-facing framework for my REST API, together with RabbitMQ for RPC-like function calls to a clustered backend. Also, I use Q to promisify all my workload in the Routes.
In one of the Routes I'm using, I…
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Launching a long-running background task - from ASP.NET or a scheduled job
I have a fairly long-running process (several minutes) that I need to run roughly once a month - but not on a fixed schedule, but after a user clicks Go in a ASP.NET Webforms GUI page.
Since ASP.NET really isn't designed to handle long-running…
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Method of "cooperatively" terminating a WCF service (basic HTTP, non-duplex)
I have a WCF service that takes a long time to run. (For the sake of this question I am not interested in breaking up the service call.)
However, when a client disconnects forcibly the WCF service will continue to run to completion - even if the…
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long processes php
i need to run a really long php script (four and half, five hours).
the script sometimes runs successfully, but sometimes gets killed inexplicably (poss something to do with the shared hosting??).
i think that the solution maybe to run the script is…
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How to handle long running process using TPL
I have started learning TPL in C# recently. We have a windows service that does some functionality.
I have to perform each job paralelly rather than sequentially.
Each job will be taking more than 10 mins to complete. So, i am considering this as…
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Cherrypy : which solutions for pages with large processing time
I have a website powered by cherrypy. For some pages, I need quite a long processing time (a multi-join SQL request on a several-million-row DB). The processing needs sometimes 20 seconds or more, and the browser get crashed because it is too…
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Handling "blocking" long running operations in Android
There's a common application behavior pattern, when you can't go next unless current action is finished. A good example is authentication: once you provided the app with you login and password, and tapped "Sign In", the app will block for a while…
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.NET Frustration - Process.GetProcessById Returns New Reference
I'm writing a c# program that will launch many child processes. At some time later on, I'll need to retrieve those processes by ID and then match those processes to a set of processes stored in a Dictionary that were added to the Dictionary when…
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Thread or Task for long running operation
I need to have a thread in my app that will be long running (it is a job scheduler, Cron like) and will be most of the time sleeping. So not much CPU and IO. What would you advise me for this . Does a Task with long running option is the proper way…
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