Re: memory usage issues in PEAR 1.4.0

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:52, Helgi Þormar wrote: > 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) Nevermind the xmlrpc comment, flipped through the code, see we are actually using it if it's available. - Helgi