Re: free allocated memory: HOW ?

Arthur Erdös wrote: >> don't OMFG me - I can't read your cmdline from here you know, >> and I'm not the one with a completely borked script/system/whatever. >> > > a big sorry again for the missunderstanding!! ;) I did not omfg YOU! I > did omfg ME when I saw that the script eats much more memory as > memory_get_usage() returned!! so please excuse me if my wording was > wrong, i'm not a native english speaker oO ah I see. (guessing from my name you can probably assume I'm not native either) (I'm not a speaker either - I'm missing a magnet and a cone. ;-) ... >>> // read the newsletter template >>> $fh = fopen($file, 'r'); >>> $theData = fread($fh, filesize($file)); >>> fclose($fh); >>> return $theData; >> which can more succinctly be written as: >> >> return file_get_contents($file); >> > > I'll try to change fread to file_get_contents()... > > anyhow, each generation of 100 mails eats approx 30 more megs :( this is just not right - I can't believe the problem is not in your code somehow. time to do some simple tests: to start with write a test script that *only* reads in the relevant file and see what happens (checking memory usage before and after you read it in). ... > > no email goes out, the mails are stored in the database. yes so you said, but your script should be capable of generating them so fast that if you *were* to send them out straight away the mail server would get *really* annoyed .. at one every 3-4 seconds the mail server would laugh at you. if you catch my drift. >