2 PHP 4.2.2 issues: server keeps working after client disconnects, session_start() blocks until other session scripts complete

Hello all, I have 2 questions that have come up because I have several long reports that can take 1-2 minutes to run. These are run from any web client thru our linux -> apache -> php -> mysql system. 1)server keeps working after client disconnects If a php script is running and it may take 1-3 minutes, and I hit escape or close my web browser window, the script keeps running. I can see it in top, consuming lots of cpu and sometimes ram. Why doesn't apache and the php4.so notice the closed tcp connection and abort the script? Is there a way to make this happen? 2)session_start() blocks until other session scripts complete Related to #1 above, if I have a script that uses session_start() or session_register() running, for say 1-3 minutes, and I try to open another connection to the same server to a script that uses session_start() or session_register() the 2nd connection is blocked until the first script finishes! This seems very bad. How can I get around this? I have tested and found that serving other php/mysql scripts from the same server work fine as long as no session_start() or session_register() like commands are present. I didn't seen this anywhere on the PHP website or docs. Can anyone help? Thanks! Mike -- Michael Kedl <kedlm@knology.net>