On Fri, August 10, 2007 6:26 am, Nathan Wallis wrote:
> I have a windows application the performs a certain task that I need
> it to
> perform. I am in the process of developing my site and am really
> interested
> in the functionality of the site at the moment and haven't set about
> putting
> the details in place, so I am using the php function
>
> exec ("start ....... ");
>
> To run the process.
>
> It works.
>
> That is it works with just me using the site. I am wondering how this
> would
> effect performance if say 500 people were executing this php function
> around
> the same time and the processing overlapped.
Don't wonder.
Run ab (Apache Benchmark) and find out.
Or use valgrind/callgrind to find out.
Or use wget to find out.
Or use that whack-a-mole benchmark or SuperSmack or whatever it is.
> Is there anyway to make
> an
> executable run as a service, I am guessing at the terminology that I
> should
> use here, but I feel there would be a much more efficient way of
> performing
> this task.
Any program can be run as a "service" (Un*x: daemon)
Writing that program to do something useful and, more so, efficient,
is a bit challenging.
Here's a sample "talkback service" that just spits out whatever you
put in:
http://php.net/sockets
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