Re: unset, memory_limit

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > Hello, > > While reading the bugs reports I came up with something I did not > expect with the bug 27714. Maybe I have had too much ram in the past > years ;) > > So this is bug is bogus, and this is the expected behavior. Unset > (or set the var null) frees the memory only if memory_limit is enabled > and not equal to -1 (unlimited) for both php5 and php4. memory_limit has nothing to with the real memory usage. m_l only is internal emalloc'ed and efree'd memory. > Why? That's sound a bit silly to me, as that makes the related > functions useless and does not allow anyone to free a huge variable > when he does not need it anymore. My main problem is when I use CLI or > gtk scripts. > > Or is there any "performance" issues there? I think it's a default unix thing actually :) Derick