[Typo3-dev] Typo3 alternative to cron (?)

[Kraft Bernhard]

Suman Debnath wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> 
> We are trying to build an extension where a process will check some 
> condition periodically and a mail should be sent out at depending upon 
> that. We donot want to use a cron. Does Typo3 (or any of its extensions) 
> has any built-in method to help here?

I already thought about writing an application server for Typo3 which would allow
such things and a cron-server was one of the already proposed application for such
a server ...

but as long as php doesn't support threads I think it will be no good idea to start
such a thing as every task has to be a single process and this can be quite memory consuming
(a single php task takes up 5-20 MB of RAM)


greets,
Bernhard
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