Re: Scripts slowing down?

René Leboeuf wrote: > I'm running a large website. I have some mailing scripts that take > days to run. > > I noticed these scripts slow down with time, sometimes going to an > almost complete stop (no mail sent for several minutes). > > The source code is trivial and can't contain a loop. I monitored the > memory usage and couldn't find a memory leak. Using APD, most of the > time is reported to be spent in the fgets() function (script waiting > for a sendmail reply). But sendmail still replies swiftly when this > problem occurs. It sounds like you are using SMTP to talk directly to your sendmail daemon? > Restarting sendmail has no effect on these scripts. Restarting the > scripts makes them run like hell for some hours, until the problem > rises again. So, if there is no loop in your script, what _does_ it contain? /Per Jessen, Zürich