Re: what is a php developer doing geting his nose in our work? :)

Hi, Take a look at SRM (http://www.vl-srm.net/), it may suit your daemon better. I wouldn't count on being able to un-define functions in the short term though :-) - Stig On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 12:54, Joffrey van Wageningen wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, you all are doing a great job on php :) You make my life as a > webdeveloper a hell of a lot easyer! > > And now some questions I dont know shit about... > > I'm writing some background scripts in php. A little she-bang to php and my > sysadmin tasks become a lot easyer and automated with the use of php code. > The last week I even tried to fork my code into a nice daemon process. This > all worked nicely but i still have some questions... (please thread-em-up if > you like): > > I use a old Pentium 200 box to develop... > > Linux leffe 2.2.19 #1 Wed Apr 25 11:10:27 CEST 2001 i586 unknown > model name : Pentium MMX > cpu MHz : 199.741 > bogomips : 398.95 > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 63028 49928 13100 23740 3056 26088 > -/+ buffers/cache: 20784 42244 > Swap: 136512 103388 33124 > > I run mysql, apache (compiled in php), postfix and php as cgi for scripting > on the box. In a idle state (98% of the time, even when im developing) the > box has a load of .05 average... no real harm here... > > When i try to do ugly things in php the problems emerge: > > * after i fork my code with pcntl-fork the load goes up to 3 to 8... i dont > think this is normal for a non-busy machine... after about 5 seconds the > load will drop below 1 and eventualy return to normal with the daemonised > php app still running... > > * when i strace my php scripts i see that a lot of time is consumed reading > mibs files for snmp... if i dont use snmp functions in my code, why are > those files read? > > * for a php daemon which i want to have running 24x7 i made a 'reload' > function which includes a file with strings which i use to generate 'lambda' > style dynamic functions... when i want to reload my (updated) functions i > only have to send a signal to my daemon and the file is included again, and > a predefined list of variable functions is refeshed by generating new lambda > functions. the real problem here is: i cant unset a lambda function so every > refresh the memory usage of the daemon increses... can you fix this? :P > > i know php is not the most superb language to do the things i want to do and > especialy not the fastest... but i hate programming a unforgiving language > as C(++) or a messy language as perl... :) > > tnx for any reply and if none i still can live with the fact i abuse php for > more that it is build for > > with kind regards, > Joffrey van Wageningen > > -- > .-[ Joffrey van Wageningen | WoLFjuh | joffrey@ne2000.nl ]-------------- > | Networking Event 2000 - www.ne2000.nl - IRCnet:#ne2000, Undernet:#clue > | PGP:1024D/C6BA5863 - 3B93 52D3 CB91 9CB7 C50D FA79 865F 628A C6BA 5863 > | * We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. > | -- Douglas Adams > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php