Re: spawing new PHP process

In article <sde386b0.042@ccp2.jhuccp.org>, Robert McPeak <RMCPEAK@jhuccp.org> wrote: > I have other situations where I would like to somehow "spawn" a new php > process so that the page loads quickly and my user doesn't get frustrated or > confused. Hang on, there's lots of talking around the point here. This is not hard. Look in the manual under pcntl_fork. This will let you create a separate process that stays running all the time (not just when you're running a web page) and you can send commands to either using pcntl_signal (docs are out of date - also look up "ticks") or through your database. You will need to have the CGI version of PHP installed, as well as mod_php - and in 4.3 this happens very easily. Having said all that, I've run into a separate probem further down the road doing just what you're wanting to do. My back-end process runs perfectly with no problems but after 5 mins or so starts generating "chunk/page already free" errors, then crashes. Looks to be a bug in there somewhere, but not sure where yet.