runaway script??? what is this?

[phao]

[ncrsn]

Runaway occurs when processing of single script lasts long. You can avoid this by using Sleep() or SleepMS() calls, which lets POL process other things for a while or making the script critical, using set_critical(1). Critical scripts will run from begin to an end, nothing else gets prosessed meanwhile.

[CWO]

Do NOT EVER make a script critical if its running away. You're just going to escalate the problem by doing that. The best way, if you have while, for, foreach, repeat/until, ect... loops is to put a sleepms() inside the loop. Depending on how fast you need the script to go you can raise or lower the number. Usually on a script that needs to be faster, I put 1 or 2 which makes no noticeable difference in the speed. Otherwise I may slow it down to 5 or even 10 ms if its not too important.