MongoCursor::immortal

(PECL mongo >=1.0.1)

MongoCursor::immortalSets whether this cursor will timeout

Beschreibung

public MongoCursor::immortal ([ bool $liveForever = TRUE ] ) : MongoCursor

After remaining idle on the server for some amount of time, cursors, by default, "die." This is generally the behavior one wants. The database cleans up a cursor once all of its results have been sent to the client, but if the client doesn't request all of the results, the cursor will languish there, taking up resources. Thus, after a few minutes, the cursor "times out" and the database assumes the client has gotten everything it needs and cleans up its the cursor's resources.

If, for some reason, you need a cursor to hang around for a long time, you can prevent the database from cleaning it up by using this method. However, if you make a cursor immortal, you need to iterate through all of its results (or at least until MongoCursor::dead() returns TRUE) or the cursor will hang around the database forever, taking up resources.

Parameter-Liste

liveForever

If the cursor should be immortal.

Rückgabewerte

Returns this cursor.

Fehler/Exceptions

Throws MongoCursorException if this cursor has started iterating.

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fastest963 at gmail dot com
11 years ago
Calling immortal(false), in order to remove the NO_TIMEOUT flag from the cursor, seems to crash with "Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0". I'm running PHP 5.2.17 and MongoDB driver 1.1.4.
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iknox {at} info.com
12 years ago
Note:: There there is an important distinction between timeout and immortal!
Timeout indicates the time to wait on the _client_ side while immortal sets the cursor on the server side.

It is especially useful for large result sets in sharded environments.
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