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From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
To: "Rune Kjær Svendsen" <runesvend@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Implementing batch processing for -blocknotify
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 06:10:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFHuXuZaSNkUUX8o_k=wSf5MeQ3tAj6yD8DJuLwbyA0C3xRQuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2=CKzW41TYbX6c1F8oknA_LttOaA8vmDPmojuowXgEADY61g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Rune Kjær Svendsen <runesvend@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have an application that wants to keep up with new blocks as they come
> in. For that I can use the -blocknotify option with bitcoind, which will
> execute my application for each new block.
>
> The problem is that my app isn't necessarily quick enough to finish its
> work before a new block comes in and the app is executed again.
>

In a similar circumstance, I changed my -blocknotify script to quickly
append necessary information to a queue and immediately exit.  A separate
script runs at all times monitoring this queue for work and performs the
labor intensive calculations.

I hope that helps.

-- 
Michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-31 11:56 [Bitcoin-development] Implementing batch processing for -blocknotify Rune Kjær Svendsen
2013-05-31 12:10 ` Michael Hendricks [this message]
2013-05-31 12:37   ` Rune Kjær Svendsen
2013-05-31 19:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-31 12:54 ` Andy Parkins
2013-05-31 13:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-05-31 22:20 ` Chris Double
2013-05-31 23:29   ` Wladimir
2013-05-31 23:47     ` Chris Double
2013-06-01 13:12       ` Rune Kjær Svendsen

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