Hi Friends

I am having a php script which is used for bulk mailing. I run the script every minute through cron job.

I have mentioned the path of the php script in a .sh file and execute the .sh file through cron job.

Every time i run the script it utilizes high memory which results to server crash.

Please advice how to restrict memory usage for that process to be a minimum one or how to set priority to be low for that process so that it is executed when there is no high priority jobs, so that the server runs normally without going down when the script runs

Thanks
Siva.D

What actual you script do? what is the O/P of top commnad when script run via cron?

IMO run script every 1 minute is not good practice.

you can use nice to set priority.

If its just for bulk mailing and it crashes, there's high probability that your algorithm is not well design.show us your PHP code.

If you get a progressive degradation before it crashes, I would examine whether the previous instance of the programme isn't over yet and so I would first look for this.

Are you closing the php script properly?