Re: Command-line PHP script CPU usage goes sky-high, stays there--why?

Jim Lucas wrote: > Tom Rogers wrote: >> Hi, ... > Also, make sure you are not using an array that you are not re-initializing through each > iteration > of the loop. If the array keeps getting bigger, PHP might $*%& on itself. Always > re-initialize > arrays to clean them up. even then he may still have creeping memory ... in which it might be possible to have a mother process that spawns and watchs a child process .. the child process is the actual deamon, the child could then keep a track of it's own memory usage and then kill itself when it gets too big ... the mother in turn would automatically spawn a new child deamon process upon seeing it's child has committed suicide. does that make sense?