Re: Running php in background?

I had Apache running on Win98 and doing a pretty demanding job (well, for a 350MHz K2) and it slowed the machine down noticeably. If the PHP script timed out the computer came back to like but if i closed the browser window or clicked stop it seemed to keep doing it. Maybe MySQL is finishing off the query it was last given until it terminates or whatever. If a big, complex query was sent through lots of records this one quesry could take a long time to sort out LJ "James Hudnall" <jameshudnall@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1103_1010426460@news.php.net... > I wrote a php program that has to do a lot of processing on a couple large mySQL tables that can take hours, so often the page will time out or kick back a > cannot find server errir. But it seems by checking the DB that records are still being updated. IS it possible the job runs in background even though it fails to > delive the final results in the browser? I don't need the final results, it just says when the job is completed. > > Ideally, I would like to run the job in the background anyway. Can that be done? > >