Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: Zend / zend.czend.hzend_config.nw.h

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Ananth Kesari wrote: > Gentlemen, > > Thanks for your responses. Understood the idea behind having the memory > leaks in PHP: > - Operating system will clean them up. > - To reduce the overhead of tracking memory allocation which may be no > point since the operating system cleans them up anyway. > - A small performance upgrade in CGI environment when free is not > done. > > But, just wanted to know when does the operating system be kicked in to > do the clean up? Is it after the script execution is all done or does it > happen even while the script is running? Also, how do we tell the > operating system when to kick in to do the clean up? We really dont tell the OS to do that, it's just that when a process ends the OS frees all associated resources (including memory). Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ JDI Media Solutions http://www.jdimedia.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------