Re: Forced garbage collection

Yes, PHP 2 was r->pool driven, so Apache cleaned up after it after every request. On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > >