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Schedule a script to run every 5 mins or so
I'm trying to get a scheduled script to run every 5 mins or so but with little success.
The script looks at a saved search or two and does some calculations on related fields and saves them in custom fields on other records. Most of the time, it will find little if any results from the search and quickly exit - running less than a second. I'd like it to run about every 5 mins or so I thought I'd have the script sleep for 5 mins then reschedule itself to run again.
My challenge is SuiteScript doesn't support any of the browser-based 'sleep' methods I know of (setTimeout, setInterval). I was able to achieve what I wanted by just doing a wild time loop - but that just wastes CPU cycles and with the poor performance we're seeing on our server already (cash sale creation take 10-15 seconds) , I'd hate to add any additional unnecessary processing.