Re: memory_limit default

On 16 June 2014 12:50, Pascal Chevrel <pascal.chevrel@free.fr> wrote: > Hi internals people, > > I was curious to know why the memory limit in php.ini was set to 128MB so > I digged into the repository history and I saw that it was bumped from 16MB > to that value in 2006: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ > 3ffc1c8f4a1e4c1658f94038e009e226258a65a4#diff- > 299b21e0851494929e62b81e8d91b5b3 > > Since there is no reference to a bug in the commit and I couldn't find > anything about it on the net, I thought I would ask at the source in > internals. > > Was it changed because the defaut value was too low for PHP to work > correctly? Or was the change done to reflect the state of hosting solutions > back then? I am curious to know why 128 and not 64 or 256 actually. If this > is the result of an analysis of the state of hosting, I am also wondering > if 8 years later php.ini settings that depend on hardware like memory are > still the right defaults. > See a (public) discussion from 2006 at http://php.markmail.org/thread/kw7yzcr37j4xi7ab > > Thanks for your hindsight on this! > > Pascal > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >