Re: How to rate limit processes started by incron?

which script do you mean? Am I going to miss events that way?

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm_at_mattdm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:21:07PM +0200, Christoph Sievers wrote:
>> Problem:
>> Unfortunately someone copies 30 thousand files to /home/sync which
>> results in a lot of processes and a lot of things go wrong then. How
>> do I can I solve this?
>
> Use IN_NO_LOOP. This will fire one process and not do it again until that
> one exits. Have your script loop until there's nothing more to do.
>
> There's a minor race condition -- a file could be written after the process
> last checks and the next one is fired. If events happen frequently enough,
> that should't be a problem in practical use. (The next run will get it.)
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