BTW when it sleeps PHP takes up no noticable resources. Also I'm running the
php binary to send out these messages (that way I can use screen and make sure
that my browser doesn't crash, os freeze, etc.)
--Joe
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:36:33PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> thanks for the comment
>
> let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will drain
> the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have usleep(300)
> on each while?
>
> your comment please.
>
> > put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my mass
> > mailer and it worked like a charm.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > > hi there.
> > >
> > > is there a way to tell crontab to do:
> > >
> > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour"..
> > >
> > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to chunk
> into
> > > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> >
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