[Vtigercrm-developers] Speeding up web services sync script?

[Alex Hall]

Hello all,
I have a script in PHP that runs once a day, in the morning. This script
queries the AS400 that stores all our company data, retrieving a list of
all the organizations and their contacts. There are a little under 13,000
of them, with anywhere from 0 to 2 contacts per organization. Call it
20,000 web service calls total. It then loops through these records, using
web services to create or update each organization or contact in Vtiger.
Obviously, this is slow.

My question is whether there's anything I can do to speed it up. It takes
hours now, and often times out before it completes all the records. I'm
considering rewriting it in Python or another language that can handle
multi-threading, but I don't know if that's the best way. Are there any
ways to speed up web services? Any tips on using some method over another
because that method is faster, for instance? Are there any server settings
I might try that would give web services more resources to run faster?
Thanks for any advice.

-- 
Alex Hall
Automatic Distributors, IT department
ahall at autodist.com
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