Re: Re: pcntl_fork doesn't work
| From: | Marek | Date: | Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:10:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: pcntl_fork doesn't work | ||
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> > I could run a background job which periodically does the gethostbyaddr
> > on the IP's stored on disk, but that's sort of a hack, and is more
> > complicated than if I could fork.
> Sounds like passthru() might do what you want
> <http://us3.php.net/passthru>.
Actually forking to resolve ip based on a xxxxx amount of users is a very
bad idea.... you could end up with having 1000's of programs looking up an
IP address. Remember that you are spawning a "new program" not a thread.
Therefore you are looking at some serious performance and load issues as
spawning a new program is not anywhere near efficient as threading. This is
very bad idea.. Got RAM ?
To be honest the cron job to lookup IPS is a more elegant solution, and no I
wouldn't call such a thing a "hack". infact I know webtrends does that ....
Marek