Re: Forced garbage collection

Actually PHP is supposed to clean up after itself at the end of the request, it does so since PHP 3 (maybe even PHP/FI 2). How about upgrading to PHP 4.0.1 and mailing us again with new stats/information. Andi On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Peter Kocks wrote: > Hi all, > > I have php script that grows apache to over 71M on a system. The script > parses an XML message that is over 19,000 lines long. The problem is not > that the script takes up 71M (although that's higher than I'd like), it is > that after the script ends, the apache daemon stays at 71M. It seems that > either there is a memory leak or that garbage collect did not occur. > > Is there any way to force php to do garbage collection? Or has it certainly > occurred when a script ends? > > Is there a way to force apache to recycle an httpd daemon at the end of a > request, so the OS cleans up the memory? > > My real problem is that I end up with a dozen 71M apache daemons after > servicing several requests and I run out of swap space. If I had just one > or two 71M daemons I'd be fine. > > (Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0b4pl1) running on Solaris 2.7. Yes, I know > php4.0b4pl1 is old and I will fix that. However, I'd still like to know if > there is a way to force memory cleanup in some way regardless if the latest > rev of php fixes this problem. > > Thanks in advance > > Peter Kocks > > >