Re: php cli question

J Ravi Menon wrote: > Few questions: > > 1) Does opcode cache really matter in such cli-based daemons? As > 'SomeClass' is instantiated at every loop, I am assuming it is only > compiled once as it has already been 'seen'. Yup. > 2) What about garbage collection? In a standard apache-mod-php setup, > we rely on the end of a request-cycle to free up resources - close > file descriptiors, free up memory etc.. > I am assuming in the aforesaid standalone daemon case, we would > have to do this manually? Yes. > Note: I have written pre-forker deamons in php directly and > successfully deployed them in the past, but never looked at in depth > to understand all the nuances. Anecdotally, I have > done 'unset()' at some critical places were large arrays were used, > and I think it helped. AFAIK, unlike Java, there is no 'garbage > collector' thread that does all the magic? Correct. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.9°C)