Thanks guys. Craig, that line of code did change at some stage by the looks. It is unclear if it was before or after the crashes occured, but the old code is there, and commented out, and it certainly does not have parenthesis or '&' in the command.
Comment/Uncomment will be a simple test so I'll try that and tell you if I owe you a beer. Cheers Aaron ----- Original Message ----- From: "craiganz" <[email protected]> To: "NZ PHP Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:21 PM Subject: [phpug] Re: MySQL update query crashing server? > > Hi. > Backgrounding *a* process is certainly reasonable, but rather > unnecessary for cron jobs. What's wrong is backgrounding many > hundreds or thousands of processes. That's just stupid and that's > what the code is (almost certainly) doing. And all the symptoms are > exactly those of a machine which is thrashing as a result of having > spawned far too many resource-intensive processes. The & absolutely > should not be used this way. > -Craig > > On Jul 30, 5:20 pm, Dalibor Andzakovic > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Backgrouding a process is perfectly legitimate. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
