I can answer my own #2 now. It is because I was trying to start_session() from the same machine/browser and it must require that only one user use a session at a time (duh).
Works fine if I use two browsers that are logged in with different account names/sessions. Still working on #1, I am definately sending data all the time during my 2 minute script, so it "should" be able to detect the connection has closed. But, maybe apache is not configured right.... Cheers, Mike On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 17:37, Michael Kedl wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 16:15, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Hello all, I have 2 questions that have come up because I have several > > > long reports that can take 1-2 minutes to run. These are run from any > > > web client thru our linux -> apache -> php -> mysql system. > > > > > > 1)server keeps working after client disconnects > > > If a php script is running and it may take 1-3 minutes, and I hit escape > > > or close my web browser window, the script keeps running. I can see it > > > in top, consuming lots of cpu and sometimes ram. Why doesn't apache and > > > the php4.so notice the closed tcp connection and abort the script? Is > > > there a way to make this happen? > > > > Yes, this happens by default, but we can only catch it if we try to write > > something to the socket and get an error back. If you are processing and > > not outputting anything, there is no way for us to tell. If you are able > > to write out some sort of progress indicator during your processing then > > it would work. > > > I am actually looping in the php code: > while(!done) > { > mysql query > send some data to the client to see > } > > So this output should trigger the detection that the socket closed? > > I will try some flushes and make sure it is not caching it till the end > later. (but I see the data appear in my browser over the whole 1-3 > minutes, so I think it is sending right away) > > > > 2)session_start() blocks > > > > This sounds odd. session_start() should not be blocking. What sort of > > backend datastore are you using for your sessions? > > > I just saw someone else post about the same thing! > I am just letting it stick directories in /tmp for each session. > > Thanks! > Any more ideas? > Mike > > -- > Michael Kedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Michael Kedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php