pcntl

I have the following test php to do a fork/spawn process, where the test also attempts to kill the child process (zombie) after is completes.. I'd like to have a more efficient process, where any child processes are immediately removed from the process table as soon as possible. The current attempt fills up the process table, and causes a memory allocation issue that shuts down the system. The app is running on a Fedora/Centos system. I'm running into a memory allocation err when this runs, and there are too many processes that get spawned, before they get removed. Any pointers would be

With the help from two previous questions, I now have a working HTML scraper that feeds product information into a database. What I am now trying to do is improve efficiently by wrapping my brain around with getting my scraper working with pcntl_fork . If I split my php5-cli script into 10 separate chunks, I improve total runtime by a large factor so I know I am not i/o or cpu bound but just limited by the linear nature of my scraping functions. Using code I've cobbled together from multiple sources, I have this working test: <?php libxml_use_internal_errors(true); ini_set('max_execution_time'

I have MAMP and I need to enable -pcntl on my current MAMP installation. How can I do so? Thanks for your help. Jon Cairns There is a way of compiling PCNTL as an extension and linking it in to an existing PHP build, but it's a bit in-depth. I'm doing the following on Mac OSX Snow Leopard (64bit), with MAMP and PHP version 5.3.6. Remember to change PHP version numbers in the following lines if yours is different! Please note that make is required, which isn't installed by default on Mac OSX. You need to install this via Mac developer tools, http://developer.apple.com/unix/ First, download a

I am using pcntl in order to speed up a quite heave CLI php script, that consists mostly of a class, that is in charge of sending all of the auto-emailing on my application. My goal is as following: I want to assign each process to a certain task, within a foreach loop, the implementation I've used is the one shown in the code example below. The problem is that once you fork a process, it executes asynchronously, and also gets a copy of the parent's process stack. In my case, what happens is that one task simply executes several times, My question is how can I design this script to be smarter