Re: HUGE memory consumption on fread()

> > Once you've eliminated that problem, I'd suggest that you > use readfile() instead of manually looping; readfile should > be much kinder to your hardware as it uses mmap, which means > that PHP doesn't need to keep allocating small buffers in the loop, > and that the OS can potentially share the mapped memory between > clients (which makes a lot of sense for you!). > Does this mean that if I readfile() a file in one script and after it's end the same script is invoked it will read from the memory instead of disk i/o? Andrey