If the files are LARGE, file_get_contents is a Bad Idea (tm).
You're trying to suck the whole thing into RAM, which it can't, which swaps and
thrashes the bleep out of your RAM/swap space...
Use fopen and an fread loop instead, and you'll probably see much better
performance.
Also, cons
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 12:14 -0800, Brian Dunning wrote:
> I'm open to something like that - we're in the middle of the holiday
> crunch and can't afford any downtime, so a significant change is out
> of the question. This is part of much larger and more involved
> scripting, so it would need
I'm open to something like that - we're in the middle of the holiday
crunch and can't afford any downtime, so a significant change is out
of the question. This is part of much larger and more involved
scripting, so it would need to be a plug-n-play replacement and also
be able to return inf
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:55 -0800, Brian Dunning wrote:
> I'm using a PHP cron job to constantly download files from a remote
> server. Client and server both have abundant unused bandwidth, and the
> sysads have already eliminated switches, interface cards, etc. as the
> source of the slowdo
I'm using a PHP cron job to constantly download files from a remote
server. Client and server both have abundant unused bandwidth, and the
sysads have already eliminated switches, interface cards, etc. as the
source of the slowdown. I'm looking at the script to see why file
downloads are ta
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