hi,
thanks again. questions:
1. sleep(300) would mean pause by 300 mins, right? That's why i thought you
mean usleep(300) - 300 microseconds. please comment
2. what you mean is i will send 5000 emails, then pause and send again?
Thanks for your help.
> I send roughly 1M of these and put a sleep() (not usleep - that's
microseconds)
> into the while loop - I've come up with a decent balance that sends out a
good
> number (like 5000) and then sleeps just long enough to get them out of
qmail's
> queue, then it sends another 5000 (and so on).
>
> Usually takes about 24 hours to send out 1M messages.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:36:33PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > thanks for the comment
> >
> > let's just say i have 100k emails to send... don't you think that will
drain
> > the system resources if i send it all at once even if you have
usleep(300)
> > on each while?
> >
> > your comment please.
> >
> > > put a sleep(300); at the end of your while() loop - I did this on my
mass
> > > mailer and it worked like a charm.
> > >
> > > --Joe
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:53:10PM +0800, Arnold Gamboa wrote:
> > > > hi there.
> > > >
> > > > is there a way to tell crontab to do:
> > > >
> > > > "run script every 5 mins for 1 hour"..
> > > >
> > > > i have this mass email script that is so huge that i need it to
chunk
> > into
> > > > records and make sure that it will run every 5 mins for 1 hour.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > >
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