Waynn Lue wrote:
> I periodically run a script that makes a call against a remote API,
> which
> takes some time to return. In an attempt to increase thoroughput, I
> decided to investigate using pnctl_fork to spawn off multiple
> processes to make the call, since the slowest part is the network part
> of it (and waiting for the
> server response). I ended up writing a script that did this:
>
> $pid = pnctl_fork();
> if ($pid == -1) {
> die('could not fork');
> } else if ($pid) {
> echo "parent $pid\n";
> return;
> } else {
> // make API call
> }
>
> While this works, it unfortunately leaves behind a zombie process
> every single time.
You need to call pcntl_wait() or pcntl_waitpid().
/Per
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Per Jessen, Zürich (4.2°C)
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