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Terminate apache process after this request
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5)
Code Examples / Notes » apache_child_terminatedaniele_dll
Don't use this function to simply terminate your scripts! Using this function you will cause a BIG overhead to apache, infact it will terminate and restart child processes instead to execute more requests in the same process! Use die or exit instead sam
apache_child_terminate does NOT terminate the running script. It terminates the apache process running the script AFTER it has finished running the script. It has no side effects on page generation, you should only call it in cases where you know your script will have used a lot of memory and you want to give it back to the system. anonymous
<?php function term() { if(function_exists('apache_child_terminate')) { apache_child_terminate(); } die('Terminated'); } ?> Also, when apache_child_terminate is called, it terminates the script, so die()/exit() is not necessary if the script is 100% sure to be on an apache 1.x server, else a die()/exit() is as good as it gets. I found its a semi-good idea to terminate the child if available after critical low-level errors. |
