Re: memory leak - how to find it?

Robin Getz wrote: > I am trying to debug a php script that I downloaded, which has a memory > leak in it. > > I was looking for a way to find what variables were in php's memory, and > what size, they were, but I couldn't find anything? > > The script is a off-line wiki conversion tool (walks through a wiki to > create a bunch of html files for off line viewing). As the tools walks > the files, and does the conversion, I can see the memory consumption go > up and up as it walks the files, until it hits the mem limit, and crashes. > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks > -Robin > xdebug has some advanced tools to help you track down these kind of problems. I believe that there are also some other similar php debugging extensions. David