How to know if something is still running

perrohunter

hi !

I got a script that has to send about 5,000 emails , the thing is that even with set_time_limit(0) sometimes it stops :/

is there a way to trace a script to know if its still running , else run it again ?

cheers

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 ! ! Best wishes

stolzyboy

you could use exec() and probably use the "top" or "ps" linux command and push that to output and parse through the output to see if it's running... maybe?? i've never done it and i'm not sure if it'll just show "apache", which i tend to think it will, i doubt it will show script.php (unless it's ran via shell).

you should think about using cron and only send a group of emails per cron run, once the email has been sent to, simply mark it as sent... so, send a group of 200 or so every 10 minutes or something like that using cron

hth,
stolzyboy

perrohunter

well, what ive done, is getting all the mails into a queue and then start sending em =P

So if the script dies, I can continue where it stopped, however it sometimes work for about 10 minuts sometimes more sometimes less =P

I think im going to do the cron every 30 minutes or so =P unless theres a better solution

cheers !

stolzyboy

i know phplist uses a combo of queue and cron to "throttle" sending emails...

5K is a lot to send at once, so queue and throttle would be a better solution, especially in regards to the resources consumed on that amount of email.