RE: [PHP] Parsing large log files with PHP

<snip> What kind of a log file are we talking here? regardless what processing you need to do generally working on a 1.2GB file with out RAID and/or lots of memory is going to be slow. Pablo Gosse wrote: >Hi folks. Has anyone encountered any problems parsing large log files >with PHP? > >I've got a log file that's about 1.2 gig that I need to parse. > >Can PHP handle this or am I better of breaking this down into 12 100mb >chunks and processing it? </snip> It's an Apache log file. I'm going to have to parse this file outside of the web server, probably on my desktop machine. It's a Dell Precision with 1GB RAM running RH9 with Apache and PHP 4.2.2. If I can get the log file broken down into 100MB chunks I assume this would not be a problem? I've not attempted to deal with the file yet as I didn't know how PHP would react to a 1.2 gig file, and I'm in the final stages of a very important project and cannot afford any downtime. I assume PHP can handle 100MB chunks without choking. Cheers and TIA. Pablo