Re: memory_get_usage with new Memory Manager
| From: | Ron Korving | Date: | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:17:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: memory_get_usage with new Memory Manager | ||
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Hi Ilia,
"Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org> wrote in message
news:70339B16-D50B-45B9-A55D-B58F9EEB679D@prohost.org...
> Eh? When you set a limit what are you trying to do? From my
> experience most of the time this setting is used by hosting providers
> to restrict memory utilization of various PHP scripts to avoid out-of-
> memory situations and system abuse. As such you'd want as accurate
> measurement as possible including any overhead and what not, since it
> is possible to use the overhead to exceed or in some cases even to
> bypass the memory limit entirely.
Yes, hosting providers would enable the memory limit. But who wants to use
memory_get_[peak_]usage()? Not the hosting provider, but the application
developer.
- Ron