Re: PHP CLI & Forking children

On Sep 29, 8:32 pm, qwerty...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Instead of writing a PHP script that downloads 2 million headers from
a newsgroup in a single connection (which will cause PHP to crash
anyway as it'll reach 500MB+ memory usage), I thought it would be
better to launch 4 processes do download it in chunks of 50,000
headers - with 4 connections to the same NNTP server.

I admit I should be using Perl or C for these tasks, but I know PHP
and I'm used to using its functions.

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