Re: imagedestroy()

Edward Vermillion wrote: ... > a directory, about 5000 images are being counted. While the script > worked fine when i wrote it a few months ago, on the different system, > I was recently trying to use it and was repeatedly getting memory limit > errors at an 8MB limit. What the script does is load an image in memory, > create three different thumbnail sizes for the image, imagedestroy() is > being called after each thumbnail build to kill the thumb, and then > finally I'm calling imagedestroy() at the end of the iteration for that > image to kill the original in memory before going on to the next image. ... > one. What I'm wondering is if anyone else has noticed this behavior, and > aside from increasing the memory limit, have you found an alternative? > I'm really trying to keep the scripts I have portable, so I haven't > looked at ImageMagic, but I was wondering if the shmop functions might > be the way to go with this. I do have reservations about using that > though since it's not a 'default' in the build and I have some servers > that I have no control over the software side of things, and I am trying > to make these as generic as possible. If you've gotten this far thanks, > sorry it turned out to be so long, but this is a rather important > problem in what I'm coding. > <sarcasm>Ever heard of the paragraph? You should look into it</sarcasm> Strange that imagedestroy() is not freeing memory because, well, that's what it is supposed to do. I checked bugs.php.net and didn't find any bug reports that match this description. IMO you should submit a bug report there and let the developers assess the problem. My guess is they will want to fix this. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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