Script timing out

bo0

I have a script that grabs a URL from a database, runs the URL through an RSS parser then e-mails the data. It does this around 500 times. The script is run using an hourly cronjob.

My problem is, the script does not like sending out e-mails of URLs further down the list.

I have ensured there is no time limit set, so the script should not be timing out.

However, when I run the script manually via my browser, it will send the first couple of e-mails out then ask me if I would like to open/download the PHP script?

Any ideas why? :rolleyes:

bogu

I think your script is killing your web server, u should use sleep() ...

bo0

Ah right, thanks. I could sleep after each e-mail is sent? Any idea on the amount time to set it to sleep for?

bogu

bo0 wrote:
Ah right, thanks. I could sleep after each e-mail is sent? Any idea on the amount time to set it to sleep for?

When I send mass email I put it to sleep 5 sec after each email, so I don't know for sure ... :p

bo0

After every e-mail I have set the script to sleep for two seconds. The problem is still occurring. Any other ideas?

bo0

This is still a MASSIVE problem for me, any other ideas?

NogDog

As per the mail() manual page:

Note: It is worth noting that the mail() function is not suitable for larger volumes of email in a loop. This function opens and closes an SMTP socket for each email, which is not very efficient.
For the sending of large amounts of email, see the [url=http://pear.php.net/package/Mail]PEAR::Mail[/url], and [url=http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Queue]PEAR::Mail_Queue[/url] packages. 