IMAP and transfer time

[Concat]

I use a PHP-script to copy attachments from IMAP-mailserver to a directory e.g. /files/.

How can i figure out how mutch time that is used to copy this files?

e.g. the PHP-script is set to run every 5 minutes with CronTAB (GET).

IMAP and webserver is same box.

Maybe I should stress-test the system by using 500 MB with files and run?

Any best practice of this?

cheers 🙂

[NogDog]

You can use [man]time/man or [man]microtime/man to get the time before and after the copy operation, then get the difference of the two values to see how long it took. If you want to get more detailed about it, you might want to look into the PEAR Benchmark package.