topic Throttle a Geoprocessing Service in ArcGIS Server with JavaScript API Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-server-with-javascript-api-questions/throttle-a-geoprocessing-service/m-p/821837#M421 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Looking for validation or other ideas.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>I have a GP service that I'd like to throttle the total number of requests for every hour.&nbsp; My current solution simply writes to a text file registered on the AGS server site each time a request is made to it:</P><P></P><UL><LI>Current Datetime</LI><LI>Running Count</LI></UL><P></P><P>So any subsequent request of the GP service it will get these from the text file and run a simple check/validation (Count vs. minutes passed since last time it was executed).&nbsp; It's all very simple in design and execution but I'd like to know if possible concurrency / collision issues would make this a bad approach.</P><P></P><P>I could possibly migrate to a standard SQL Server table, but I'd prefer simplicity of the text file.</P><P></P><P>Any input is appreciated.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:12:31 GMT JamesCrandall 2019-04-02T19:12:31Z Throttle a Geoprocessing Service https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-server-with-javascript-api-questions/throttle-a-geoprocessing-service/m-p/821837#M421 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Looking for validation or other ideas.&nbsp; </P><P></P><P>I have a GP service that I'd like to throttle the total number of requests for every hour.&nbsp; My current solution simply writes to a text file registered on the AGS server site each time a request is made to it:</P><P></P><UL><LI>Current Datetime</LI><LI>Running Count</LI></UL><P></P><P>So any subsequent request of the GP service it will get these from the text file and run a simple check/validation (Count vs. minutes passed since last time it was executed).&nbsp; It's all very simple in design and execution but I'd like to know if possible concurrency / collision issues would make this a bad approach.</P><P></P><P>I could possibly migrate to a standard SQL Server table, but I'd prefer simplicity of the text file.</P><P></P><P>Any input is appreciated.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:12:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-server-with-javascript-api-questions/throttle-a-geoprocessing-service/m-p/821837#M421 JamesCrandall 2019-04-02T19:12:31Z Re: Throttle a Geoprocessing Service https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-server-with-javascript-api-questions/throttle-a-geoprocessing-service/m-p/821838#M422 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Update:</P><P></P><P>I implemented what is described in the original post for now and will just be aware of any concurrency problems associated with writing to the .txt file.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 22 Apr 2019 14:16:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-server-with-javascript-api-questions/throttle-a-geoprocessing-service/m-p/821838#M422 JamesCrandall 2019-04-22T14:16:14Z