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