Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #8889: Memory is not being freed.

What is your typical apache process size, and number of current running procs? Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Moon" <brian@phorum.org> To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@linuxcare.com> Cc: "Filip Sielimowicz" <sielim@wp-sa.pl>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8889: Memory is not being freed. > Ok, so what are the benefits of not returning memory to the system? It > seems that no one who can do it wants to so there must be a good reason. > > Brian Moon > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Phorum Dev Team - http://phorum.org > Making better forums with PHP > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@linuxcare.com> > To: "Brian Moon" <brian@phorum.org> > Cc: "Filip Sielimowicz" <sielim@wp-sa.pl>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:03 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8889: Memory is not being freed. > > > > Seems to me like it would be a lot easier just to add more RAM. $89 for > > 256M these days. RAM is cheap. > > > > -Rasmus > > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Brian Moon wrote: > > > > > That is what we are doing now. We have it at 5. Any higher and we are > > > running out. There is only 128MB of RAM in our machine. I am > considering > > > switching to CGI PHP just to eliviate this problem. Of course, that > sucks. > > > > > > Brian Moon > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Phorum Dev Team - http://phorum.org > > > Making better forums with PHP > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@linuxcare.com> > > > To: "Filip Sielimowicz" <sielim@wp-sa.pl> > > > Cc: "Brian Moon" <brian@phorum.org>; <php-dev@lists.php.net> > > > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:56 AM > > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 4.0 Bug #8889: Memory is not being freed. > > > > > > > > > > > Yes, yes, I agree ! But this is the problem ! Unfortunatelly "memory > > > > > hungry script" happens from time to time and there's no chance to > > > prevent > > > > > httpd processes from keeping memory (which is not used again in most > > > > > cases). Maybe it is not a problem for you, but it is for us. > > > > > > > > A quick fix would be to set your MaxRequestsPerChild to a lower value. > > > > > > > > -Rasmus > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >