Try bash scripting. On Jan 2, 11:25 am, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a PHP CLI script here that reads files, usually thousands or 10's of > thousands in a batch, runs them through a preg_match and records results to a > MySQL database. > > 5,000 - 10,000 files works OK, but go further then this and it gets slower and > slower as it progresses through the job. > > Anyone know why? > > Is PHP not really the best language for multi text file content processing? > Should I be using C/C++? > > Or is there something else I should be looking at? > > The system hardware is fine for the job - Core2 Duo 2GHz with 4Gb of RAM. > > Michael
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