Re: Size of Arrays

Stuart, et al -- ..and then Stuart said... % % David T-G wrote: % >2) Five minutes with a test script would tell you, and I bet google could .. % >all) it breaks. My bet is that you'l exhaust RAM and swap before you % >break php, especially if you actually store something -- like, say, 32 % >bytes of useless string output -- in each entry. % % Indeed. The following script had my machine happily swapping like crazy % at 320,000 array items (each being 1k, task manager showed 640meg total % memory in use on this development machine with 512meg RAM running WinXP). [snip] *grin* We can figure, then, that if you cut down to 32b you'll probably get to about a million entries, which is a nice, BIG, round[ish] number. You ought to give it a go. My laptop and my dev server are in the middle of a 12G transfer, and my production servers are, well, production, so I can't try this now, but if there's interest I'll give it a go later. My dev box (LFS Linux) only has 384M RAM, though, so it won't be anything awesome. A buddy of mine hosts on a 2G [quad Xeon -- yum!] box with another 2G of swap, but he'd kill me if I took down his business! Anyone (perhaps at some company with deeper pockets than mine) have a hefty dev server that could risk a crash in the name of playing "mine's bigger"? :-) HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!