2008/1/23, Daniel Schwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > why not: because if the i/o fails, your script will run forever, using
> > 100% cpu, doing nothing.
> Mh, yeah, I had a similar problem with my scripts. No infinite loop,  but a
> blocking write to a fifo, as my fifo listener process was killed off.
> I wasted lots of memory with my stale php processes. Sorry about that!
> I fixed it by adding checks for the fifo listener (using pid files) and
> aborting the php script if the write would be blocking.

Maybe using non-blocking I/O would help too ?:)

AJF/WarX

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