jbv wrote:
> On my on-rev account I have a LC script that calls a php script via
> the shell, and the php dumps the content of a mySQL db. Then another
> LC script (triggered later by another cgi request) builds a zip
> archive (using revzip) of the dump + a few small files.
> This scripts have been running for years without problem, even if the
> size of the db dump was constantly growing.
> Then suddenly a couple of days ago, the 2nd script (building the zip
> archive) started returning a "504 gateway timeout" error.
>
> As a solution, I modified the 1st script (php) to dump & gzip the db
> content in one single pass. And to my surprise, this didn't return any
> error, but is also twice faster than the 2nd LC script that was only
> zipping the content of the dump.
> This was a surprise because I thought that dumping + zipping would be
> a heavier task than zipping only, and would take more time...
Two tasks would seem to take longer than either one of them.
> Any rational explanation for that ?
If the difference is the language, maybe PHP is dramatically faster than
LC for that task.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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