sleep()¶

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Note

The native method listed here is for the legacy mongo shell.

To use native methods in mongosh, see Native Methods in mongosh.

Definition¶

sleep(ms)¶

Parameter	Type	Description
`ms`	integer	A duration in milliseconds.

sleep() suspends a JavaScript execution context for a specified number of milliseconds.

Example¶

Consider a low-priority bulk data import script. To avoid impacting other processes, you may suspend the shell after inserting each document, distributing the cost of insertion over a longer period of time.

The following example mongosh script will load a JSON file containing an array of documents, and save one element every 100 milliseconds.

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JSON.parse(cat('users.json')).forEach(function(user) {
    db.users.save(user);
    sleep(100);
});

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