opening sockets and performance

[Anon]

I have to select a list of IP addresses from a database(may run into 1000s) and open a connection to each one of them

I want to know if such an operation will affect the performance of the server its hosted on

basically What i'll be doing is this:

$fp = fsockopen("udp://$sendtoIP", 692, $errno, $errstr);
fputs ($fp, "$txtmsg");
fclose($fp);

the above 3 lines will run in a loop(over 1000 times) with the sendtoIP changing for each iteration.

Is there a better more efficient wayto do this possibly where I can reuse the $fp handle... I'm running this on a windows machine.

Thanks for any help.

[kparker]

There isn't a way to "reuse" the socket handle if the peer address is different each time. You simply have to break the connection and establish a new one with each successive address. Are you having load problems already? What you're doing doesn't sound heavy-duty at all: since you're doing the connections one at a time (rather than in parallel) you're spreading the load out over time.

[neville]

No load problems yet... but I was wondering if making so many connections <u>will</u> create a load problem ??

Could u suggest if there is a better way?

Thanks.