Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP eats memory until killed

Can you try to kill -11 that process so that it core dumps, or alternately, connect to it with a debugger (gdb -p pid), to see what it's doing? Zeev On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Till Gerken wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with PHP that persists since shortly after version PHP4b3. > > Any PHP 3 versions and any PHP 4 version until including PHP4b3 are _not_ > affected of this, which makes me suspect that it's an internal PHP problem: > > There's a package called phpChat, available at > http://www.phpwizard.net/phpChat > > When this chatserver is being used with any recent PHP 4 version after beta > 3, PHP, after login, will launch an Apache process which starts eating > memory until it is being killed. User aborts do not seem to have any effect, > it seems that either PHP or Zend step into an endless loop continuously > allocating memory. > > I have not been able to track down this bug myself in the sources - does > anyone have any opinions about this? > > Till > > > > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/