Re: free allocated memory: HOW ?

Arthur Erdös wrote: > I am using PHP version 5.1.2. on my dev machine. The same problem with > PHP 5.2.1 on webserver. > > I am generating mails based on a HTML Template. After reading the > template with fread() memory_get_usage() says ~386 MB in use... WTF - 386 megs for an html file??? somehow I doubt this is the correct number ... are you reading the memory consumption correctly? exactly how much ram does the server in question have that you can allow a single script to schlock up almost 2gigs ?? > > Then the placeholders in the read template are replaced by customized > values within a loop. The size of the used memory grows permanently in > each loop by approx 30 MB (100 newsletters are generated per loop). if the values are customized I can't fathom why you would generate 100 emails per loop. > > any ideas what i am doing wrong and where i [ab]use php? ^^ no not really - but it's rather ironic that you sent the same email/reply 3 times. with showing code there is nothing anybody can do to help.