[thelist] sleep, etc to make a script not take resources
Bob Meetin
bobm at dottedi.biz
Tue Oct 13 13:18:54 CDT 2009
This might seem like a silly question, but ... I have a script that I
will need to run against 30,000 lines or so in a text file (.csv). It
will need to do some pattern matching, then if it matches insert an
entry into a database field.
I can do this using either a PHP or shell script. What is a smart way
of running it so that it doesn't toast the CPU and draw the gods upon
me? Can you interject a "sleep 1" or something else into the script or
does that even help?
door #2 says that I set up PHP/MySQL locally, run the app, and upload
the database file rather than runnning the program on the webhost server.
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