Re: CGI quick cleanup

> > I have noticed the same problem with a scipt that used a very large array > > (~160 MB). The script run time was around 35 seconds, while it took over 4 > > minutes to shut down! Same amount of time was used in trying to unset() the > > array. > > [wild guess] > probably the memory deallocation is the one expensive here. Probably true. But there is a big performance problem here, and I think it should be looked at. I cannot belive that 4 minutes to deallocte 160 MB ram is the best we can do on a 1 GHz machine with 1GB ram. > BTW, don't use large arrays in PHP as Apache module cause when the process > grows requesting more memory (brk(2)) it cannot release it back to the > system (because the httpd process is still running). I'm aware of this, but this was command line script so that was not a problem. Edin