Re: crontab help

1.) sleep() is in seconds - plain old seconds - so sleep(300) == 5 minutes. 2.) yes - send, sleep, send, ... --Joe On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:09:05PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote: > hi, > > thanks again. questions: > > 1. sleep(300) would mean pause by 300 mins, right? That's why i thought you > mean usleep(300) - 300 microseconds. please comment > 2. what you mean is i will send 5000 emails, then pause and send again? > > Thanks for your help. > > > I send roughly 1M of these and put a sleep() (not usleep - that's > microseconds) > > into the while loop - I've come up with a decent balance that sends out a > good > > number (like 5000) and then sleeps just long enough to get them out of > qmail's > > queue, then it sends another 5000 (and so on). > > > > Usually takes about 24 hours to send out 1M messages. > > > > --Joe > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:36:33PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > > thanks for the comment > > > > > > let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will > drain > > > the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have > usleep(300) > > > on each while? > > > > > > your comment please. > > > > > > > put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my > mass > > > > mailer and it worked like a charm. > > > > > > > > --Joe > > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote: > > > > > hi there. > > > > > > > > > > is there a way to tell crontab to do: > > > > > > > > > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour".. > > > > > > > > > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to > chunk > > > into > > > > > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, > > > -o) > > > > http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com > > > /\\ > > > > "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry > > > > Ellison > > > _\_V > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, > -o) > > http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com > /\\ > > "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison > _\_V > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Stump, PHP Hacker, joestump98@yahoo.com -o) http://www.miester.org http://www.care2.com /\\ "It's not enough to succeed. Everyone else must fail" -- Larry Ellison _\_V -------------------------------------------------------------------------------