if you do "real-time" calculations while the user presses buttons, it's supposed to return under 300ms. Online book states that part in environments where you do calculations in the background that takes more than 300ms (i.e. not real time). "usual" webserver timeout is set to 30-60 seconds.
On Friday, March 14, 2014 5:30:48 PM UTC+1, Martin wrote: > > Hi all, > Please could anyone help me out, I need to pull some data from some API > (ex: https//xxx/aaa/ etc.) that returns json data type. > I will take input from logged-in users (onkeyup event) with the API > retured json to perform some real-time calculation and then display the > result to the logged-in user. > > My question is how can i perform this following Massimo's advices in the > web2py online book, > > *...Ajax callbacks can be used to perform computations in the background, > but we recommend using cron or a background process instead (discussed in > chapter 4), since the web server enforces a timeout on threads. If the > computation takes too long, the web server kills it. Refer to your web > server parameters to set the timeout value...* > > * Thanks* > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
