Re: free allocated memory: HOW ?

Arthur Erdös wrote: > Hello all, > > is there a way to free memory allocated by variables in PHP?? This is a > very important issue concerning long running scripts... this is a recurrent problem - not much can be done about it AFAIK ... I'd be very glad to be proved wrong. > > I have a script that generates > 5000 Newsletters and when the script > finishes it uses 1.8 GB (!!) of RAM. Although I am using unset() to > clean up variables (tried with $var = null too). okay this does suggest your doing something else very wrong - I personally have code that regularly generates upto 20,000 individualised newsletters without going anywhere near this ammount of memory - granted I've hit my memory limit a couple of times and had to jack it up to 128Megs (in practice the script grab just over 64Megs when it's doing it's worst). what version of php are you [ab]using? > > I've read sth about php not giving the allocated memory back to the OS > until a script finishes, is that right?? Is it possible to free the > memory "by hand"? > > Any suggestion is appreciated! > > thx in advance >