René Fournier wrote: > However, the number of socket clients connecting in the past 3-4 > months has steadily increased, and this seems to have exposed (if not > created) a strange performance "issue" with PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.0.45 > and/or Mac OS X Server 10.4.11. (I say "and/or" because I am unsure > where the problem's cause really lies.) Basically, after the script > has been running for a day or so (processing essentially the amount > data that used to take two weeks), the CPU usage of the machine goes > from 30% (normal) to 80-90%. Have you tried stracing it to see what's really happening when the load goes that high? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php