This is because the reading from socket is blocked_read by default. So there is fuinction socket_set_blocking() and also socket_set_timeout(). I had the same problem so as workaround set_time_limit(0) but the script works for 40 !! seconds. My aim was to get some header so I didn't read from the socket until feof($fp) but stopped somewhere before the end of data and close()-ing socket after that. After this intervention the time which the scripts uses is 4!!! seconds.
Regards, Andrey Hristov IcyGEN Corporation http://www.icygen.com BALANCED SOLUTIONS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Maska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] php in free() > I'm not sure which way you create the connection, but I suppose that you use > FSockOpen.. > > This is a buggy function, as far as I know.. > Zend promised to take care of it in the 4.0.4 release of PHP, but since that > nothing has changed, apparently. > I had the same problem some week ago. In the end I had to use PERL script > via PHP function exec(). > > And here's the bug: > After calling a socket, PHP interpreter simply keeps all data in memory, > doesn;t close connection, keeps trying to read, and finaly stucks.. which > can lead to an extreme overload on your server (tried it on Apache and IIS). > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]