Re: php cli question

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote: > 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. Just to clarify, you mean we don't need the op-code cache here right? > >> 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. > So 'unset($some_big_array)' or 'unset($some_big_object)' etc.. is the right way to go for non-resource based items? i.e. it needs to be explicitly done? thx, Ravi >> 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) > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >