Re: memory usage issues in PEAR 1.4.0

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:34, Greg Beaver wrote: > bertrand Gugger wrote: > > >>> Why not have the pear detach a second process just building the > >>> "database" and then answering its parent (the pear installer) on > >>> inquiries thru a pipe ? > >>> So you divide and get speed with less individual resource usage. > >>> I know it's some unix view, but I'm certain MS furnish similar ways. > >>> > >>> OK again, just future sight here :) > >> > > I've done some tracing, and the problem is not actually in the code - I > reached the memory limit of 8 MB before all of the code is even > completely loaded into memory when using Zend (which adds some junk for > debugging). If you want to prove it, try this script: > > <?php > require_once 'PEAR/Remote.php'; > var_dump(memory_get_usage()); > ?> > > This will only work in php 5, btw. The output I get is: > > bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/Zend/ZendStudioClient-4.0.0/bin/php5/php test.php > Content-type: text/html > X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.3 > > int(7436608) > > 7.4 MB to do this. There is no way I can improve the memory situation > without removing a ton of features. PHP 4.3.10 and I get int(8766712) and this is just wow ... We could keep the mem down if it used the xml_rpc ext ? (I know that using ext in the installer isn't a possibility, just curious) - Helgi