RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Dwight Altman
), so it is already closed. Regards, Dwight -Original Message- From: Chris Verges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:21 PM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections Hey all, I'm writing a PHP script that queries a database

RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Dwight Altman
To: 'php-db@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php says 'The reason for the MySQL Lost Connection during query...' like what you concluded, although they grab a new $db connection in the first for loop } else

Re: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Chris Verges
and execute. Regards, Dwight -Original Message- From: Dwight Altman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:09 AM To: 'php-db@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php says

RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Dwight Altman
:01 PM To: Dwight Altman; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections Hey Dwight, Thanks for the replies! When the first child thread closes, all of the DB connections seem to close. That is, the $db-execute() statements will fail in the child threads

RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Dwight Altman
To use a PEAR::DB persistent connection, try $db = DB::connect($dsn, TRUE); or $db = DB::connect($dsn, true); Googled for pear::db persistent connection and got http://vulcanonet.com/soft/?pack=pear_tut Regards, Dwight -Original Message- From: Dwight Altman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Chris Verges
Hey Dwight, After getting your first e-mail, I started adding the PEAR::DB persistent connection code. Unfortunately, it yielded the same results that I was getting before. At a hunch, I created a second proof-of-concept script that uses the mysql_* functions in the PHP base. For each of

Re: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Chris Verges
For anyone interested in following the progress of this forking/PEAR::DB issue, see http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=10813. Thanks, Chris -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-23 Thread Dwight Altman
Glad to help. I was actually interested in your post because of forking versus threading. I still haven't found anything except for PHP-GTK but it may help your database related performance if it is added/exists in PHP. Regards, Dwight -Original Message- From: Chris Verges

[PHP-DB] Forking and database connections

2007-04-21 Thread Chris Verges
Hey all, I'm writing a PHP script that queries a database for some records, splits the records into N number of groups of equal size, and then creates N number of forks where each child handles one of the groups. During the execution of each of the child processes, I'd like the parent process to