Re: memory usage issues in PEAR 1.4.0

Just looking through some of the code, assuming the numbers you gave are correct, I suspect looking at lazy loading of alot of the classes when they are needed, rather than bulk loading at the top of each file may help alot.. Regards Alan On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:04 +0800, Alan Knowles wrote: > alan@debian:~$ php4 -r 'require_once "PEAR/Remote.php"; > var_dump(memory_get_usage());' > int(438088) > > Thats with php4 and 5 with pear 1.3.2 > > a 20x increase in memory usage from a that is very odd.. > > Regards > Alan > > > > > > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 19:34 -0500, 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. > > > > Greg > > >