Sleep() In The Background
how much the sleep() which is set to no limit can consume the system resource. Could it cause to hang the server? I tried the following and couldnot see the server got busy. Although the browser seemed to be so, if I access to a different page, it responded very quick as usual. It's not a big deal, is it? sleep.php PHP Code:
<?php
set_time_limit(0);
sleep(0);
?>
fork_sleep.php
PHP Code:
<?php
$str = "php -f sleep.php";
exec("$str > /dev/null &");
?>
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