Re: COM stalls the server..

Have you been making sure that the COM app. actually finishes and cleans up properly on the server (i.e. CTL+ALT+DEL process list doesn't show it)? I was playing with Excel+COM with PHP 4.2.0 and there was a bug with the COM implementation and the Excel instance would never terminate.... so after a few minutes, there'd be so many open Excel instances that the computer would really slow down. I'd imagine that on a server, the problem would be magnified. -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- "Ross Fleming" <r.fleming@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message news:PKEOKJGBCLBAKGDHPPFCEEFJCDAA.r.fleming@totalise.co.uk... > Hi again > > I'm trying a bit of COM programming in PHP but can't for the life of me > figure out what's wrong. I've tried both Winamp (have winampCOM installed) > and MS Word and it just seems to stall the server whenever I view a page > with it. Can anyone explain why or is there a setting in php.ini I have to > play with? (I've looked but can't find anything) > > It seems to work from the command line, but not through a browser. > > Config: > Win XP Pro (administator) > Apache 1.3.26 > PHP 4.2.1 > > Ross >