# How to sleep a million years

DevFeed: [How to sleep a million years](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-sleep-a-million-years-38926.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-19-how-to-sleep-a-million-years>)

Author: Marek

Published: 2013-07-18T22:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Marek Majkowski](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/marek-majkowski.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Scripting, bash](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scripting-bash.md>), [Operating system](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/operating-system.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Memcached](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/memcached.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>)

Tags: [bash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bash.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [command-line](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command-line.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [memcached](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memcached.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [timeout](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/timeout.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial demonstrates fluxcapacitor, an environment that changes a program's view of elapsed time. It uses examples including sleeping for very long durations, accelerating sleep sort, and testing Memcached expiration with separate processes.

## Source excerpt

How to sleep million years Let me assure you, the "fluxcapacitor" project is very interesting. Unfortunately, I find it very difficult to describe what it does. For this project I completely fail the elevator pitch. I won't attempt to describe it, instead I'll try present it in action.