Posted by David Grant on 11/23/05 14:29

Hi Angelo,

Why not send them all in one go? If you want to reduce server load, you
should perhaps adjust the 'nice'ness of the script.

If you do the following:

nice --adjustment=19 ./script.php

Your script will run in the background and use only spare resources.

Cheers,

David Grant

Angelo Zanetti wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a dedicated server in the states.
>
> I need to send about 8000 emails (once off). There pretty small +- 5KB.
>
>
> so I want to write a php script and run it from the command line in the
> background. I was thinking of sending 50 emails then waiting 90 seconds
> then sending again.
>
> Or
>
> the same script gets run by cron every 90 seconds and just sends 50 emails.
>
> What do you recommend?
>
> thanks
>
> clive

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