Re: memory allocation and de-allocation

advice from up above (not me :) try changing this in Zend/zend_alloc.c

#define MAX_CACHED_MEMORY       11
#define MAX_CACHED_ENTRIES      256

#define PRE_INIT_CACHE_ENTRIES 32 to

#define MAX_CACHED_MEMORY       1
#define MAX_CACHED_ENTRIES      1

#define PRE_INIT_CACHE_ENTRIES 1 - this should tell php to not cache the memory (dont forget that php assumes that another apache process may want to use that memory :) regards alan Brett Geer wrote:

Porting one of my apps to php-gtk from the web interface I noted that the memory usage of the app just kept on going up, after a little digging I discovered: <? function allocate_some () {

     for ($loop = 0; $loop <= 100000; $loop++)
        $some_array [$loop] = "This is a string to use up space";

} ?> will grab a chunk of memory and not release it until script completion, I've tried pop'ing the array and unset'ing the array and even setting the array to a null with $some_array = NULL With no success. Is there any way to free the memory from a variable, most of my program runs with little memory usage, however one or two functions pull back big lists of data. brett