Re: [PHP] Re: [Bulk] Re: [PHP] Why [?php while (true) { sleep(5); } ?] dies on CLI?

Jean-Pierre Arneodo wrote:
> Ashley Sheridan a écrit :
>> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 10:47 +0000, Jean-Pierre Arneodo wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi!
>>> I'm stuck.
>>> I don't understand why the php CLI dies after 3 hours in my script.
>>> Any idea to solve?
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> PHP 5.2.9-0.dotdeb.2 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Apr  7 
>>> 2009 20:06:36)
>>> Linux ubuntu  2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:44:47 UTC 2008 
>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Conf [php.ini]
>>> max_execution_time=0
>>>
>>> <?php
>>> while (true) {
>>>         sleep(5);
>>> }
>>> ?>
>>>
>>>
>>>           
>> The while loop will continue executing until its condition is false. As
>> you've got a boolean true as the condition, it will never end.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ash
>> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>>   
> I don't want to stop, but the process dies.
> 
> I've tried the same loop with bash interpretor.
> Same result, it seems to be a ubuntu problem, not a php problem.

Open up a shell... type the following into it:

ulimit -a

What do you see?

Cheers,
Rob.
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