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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 11/01/07 11:30
Phil wrote:
> On Oct 31, 9:58 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Phil wrote:
>>> I should point out that I know this has something to do with the file-
>>> size. With a small file it works OK. With a large file it fails to the
>>> browser. In this case, a large file is up to 3.5GB of uncompressed
>>> ASCII text. There may be up to 100 files to search - I can do that
>>> part I think, once I get it to actually search the file! :-) Any help
>>> GREATLY appreciated.
>>> Probably I should mention that I am not a full-time developer ... I'm
>>> quite good with shell scripts, REGEX and procedural languages ... I'm
>>> a hacker at best with PHP :-) I'm more of a systems person.
>>> On Oct 31, 5:45 pm, Phil <phillip.corch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I cannot figure why this works fine at the command-line of the linux
>>>> server, but will not output anything to the browser, and no errors in
>>>> the error_log (syslog). The goal here is to have a page to enter a
>>>> search term and grep or zgrep pattern matches in the file (will be a
>>>> log file). Probably there is a better way to do this using php, but
>>>> this is what I was able to come up with using my limited php-
>>>> knowledge. Can anyone help me debug this?
>> > I should point out that I know this has something to do with the file-
>> > size. With a small file it works OK. With a large file it fails to the
>> > browser. In this case, a large file is up to 3.5GB of uncompressed
>> > ASCII text. There may be up to 100 files to search - I can do that
>> > part I think, once I get it to actually search the file! :-) Any help
>> > GREATLY appreciated.
>> >
>> > Probably I should mention that I am not a full-time developer ... I'm
>> > quite good with shell scripts, REGEX and procedural languages ... I'm
>> > a hacker at best with PHP :-) I'm more of a systems person.
>> >
>> (Top posting fixed)
>>
>> Well, some code would help. But are you possibly running out of memory
>> and/or execution time? Those are the two main things which cause
>> problems with large amounts of data but not small.
>>
>> Anything in your PHP error log?
>
> there is squat from logs :(
>
> This really seems to be an issue of file size.
> Even this simple read/echo for a file of only 9200 lines it fails, say
> nothing of my other
> files of over 2million lines.
>
> I have max_execution set to 3000 sec, so i don't think that is it. I
> don't see too much in
> php.ini that controls memory handling. "memory limit" is 32MB and post
> limit is 8PM (default).
>
> This is Apache/2.0.52 and PHP 4.3.9 by the way on a dual dual-core P4
> 3Ghz with 4GB RAM and CentOS 4.4 (32bit) with a 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp
> kernel
>
> $file="/var/log/httpd/access_log";
> $handle = @fopen("$file", "r");
> if ($handle) {
> echo "<pre>";
> while (!feof($handle)) {
> $buffer = fgets($handle, 2048);
> print_r ($buffer);
> ob_flush();
> }
> echo "</pre>";
> fclose($handle);
> }
>
> Sorry for Top Post. See GP for original code snip.
>
>
OK, in your php.ini file, ensure you have
error_reporting=E_ALL
display_errors=On
for testing purposes.
If this is a production system, I don't recommend having
display_errors=On. Rather, I use log_errors=On and set a log file.
P.S. Don't mind the trolls here. Someone is starved for attention.
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