Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question (was skinning a cat) :-)

2008-09-03 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:55 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:34 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Per Jessen schrieb: Jochem Maas wrote: lockfile=/var/lock//file # clear out a lock older than 60mins find $lockfile

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question (was skinning a cat) :-)

2008-09-02 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:34 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Per Jessen schrieb: Jochem Maas wrote: lockfile=/var/lock//file # clear out a lock older than 60mins find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm test ! -f $lockfile ( touch $lockfile run some php rm -f

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question (was skinning a cat) :-)

2008-09-02 Thread Micah Gersten
Robert Cummings wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:34 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Per Jessen schrieb: Jochem Maas wrote: lockfile=/var/lock//file # clear out a lock older than 60mins find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm test ! -f $lockfile ( touch $lockfile run

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question (was skinning a cat) :-)

2008-09-01 Thread Merlin Morgenstern
Per Jessen schrieb: Jochem Maas wrote: lockfile=/var/lock//file # clear out a lock older than 60mins find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm test ! -f $lockfile ( touch $lockfile run some php rm -f $lockfile ) wouldn't creating a dir be better here? (with regard to atomicity) I haven't

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question (was skinning a cat) :-)

2008-09-01 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:34 +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: Per Jessen schrieb: Jochem Maas wrote: lockfile=/var/lock//file # clear out a lock older than 60mins find $lockfile -cmin +60 | xargs rm test ! -f $lockfile ( touch $lockfile run some php rm -f $lockfile )

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 22:14 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Merlin wrote: I am thinking about placing the info on the individual e-mail inside a ascii txt file that will be read by a cron job which will send the e-mail instead. Something like every 5 minutes reading it line by line and then

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes except now you also need to detect if your daemon dies :) On the plus side

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes except now you

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Per Jessen
Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. That's the same as running a cron every 5

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:49 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent every 5mins. That's the same as running a cron every 5 minutes

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:10 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for emails to be sent

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:10 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a cron-job, you could have a script running as a daemon, checking for

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:42 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 17:10 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 12:12 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: Robert Cummings wrote: That's easily taken care of. Instead of a

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:42 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: I assume that this is coming from your interjinn lib, and that it's aimed at php4 (given the ampersands your throwing about) also your LockManager object seems to have a get() and

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 22:21 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:42 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: I assume that this is coming from your interjinn lib, and that it's aimed at php4 (given the ampersands your throwing

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:25 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 22:21 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:42 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: I assume that this is coming from your interjinn lib, and

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-31 Thread Jochem Maas
Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 16:25 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 22:21 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:42 +0200, Jochem Maas wrote: Robert Cummings schreef: I assume that this is coming from your

[PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-30 Thread Merlin
Hi everybody, I am running a travel community where users want to get informed on changes inside different groups they have subscribed to. At the moment I am doing this with a for loop that generates an individual e-mail sent to them via phpmailer. That works, however the submit of the

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-30 Thread Per Jessen
Merlin wrote: I am thinking about placing the info on the individual e-mail inside a ascii txt file that will be read by a cron job which will send the e-mail instead. Something like every 5 minutes reading it line by line and then after sending it removing the line. e.g: for:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] Individual bulk e-mails - performance question

2008-08-30 Thread Diogo Neves
Well, i have done that once and it worked pretty well... Only diference was that i had a hour limit ( think dreamhost hosting ) and used Swift Mailer, but i think it don't matter a lot ;) I think is a good solution... On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody,