Hello all, I have a cronjob that runs a PHP script against MySQL. The script takes 5 minutes to process 4000 records (approximately 12 records per second). Here are the top two entries from top: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 8671 mysql 25 0 20172 19M 2000 R 97.8 3.9 2:02 0 mysqld 8670 appmgr 15 0 2088 2088 1424 S 2.2 0.4 0:03 0 php Is there a way that I can slow down the script so mysqld does not bog the machine down. Here is a snippet of code. The function is called by the cronjob. <snip> function rank_mailbox_current($company_ID){ $query = "select app_ID from mailbox where company_ID = \"$company_ID\" and deleted_date = 0 order by mailbox.ID desc"; $result=query_database($query); while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){ $app_ID = $row["app_ID"]; $rank_of_app=rank_app($app_ID,$company_ID); } } </snip> Server: P-IV 2.4GHz, 512 DDRAM, RedHat 9 PHP Version 4.3.1 MySQL 4.0.3 Thanks, Ryan -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php