From 50fee9b612bc2c33948074b49325f1613fee64a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Szymon <szymon@jez.net.pl>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:40:37 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Mentioned and explained the INTERVAL option in the README.

---
 README.markdown | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index d871ac626..6cfdcb1fb 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ loop do
   if job = reserve
     job.process
   else
-    sleep 5
+    sleep 5 # Polling frequency = 5 
   end
 end
 shutdown
@@ -275,6 +275,13 @@ worker is started.
     $ PIDFILE=./resque.pid BACKGROUND=yes QUEUE=file_serve \
         rake environment resque:work
 
+### Polling frequency
+
+You can pass an INTERVAL option which is a float representing the polling frequency. 
+The default is 5 seconds, but for a semi-active app you may want to use a smaller value.
+
+    $ INTERVAL=0.1 QUEUE=file_serve rake environment resque:work
+
 ### Priorities and Queue Lists
 
 Resque doesn't support numeric priorities but instead uses the order