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How to make a script launched by cron to sleep for X seconds?

I 'm improving a cron job which loops a lot of stuff and updates my database. I would like to make ut wait, let's say 30 seconds every 100 requests.

Something like:

loop{
     loop{
          query();
     }
     wait(3000); // wait 3 seconds and continue
}

Can I do that? If so, is it possible the the cron job times out?

Thanks!

Solution

  • You can set execution time limit to infinity with this:

    set_time_limit(0);

    And then you can use sleep() function to pause the execution.