Posted by Bruno Barberi Gnecco on 04/24/07 00:27

I'm using PHP to run a CLI application. It's a script run by cron that
parses some HTML files (with DOM XML), and I ended up using PHP to integrate with
the rest of the code that already runs the website.

The problem is: it's eating more memory than a black hole. It eats the
current limit of 256MB set in php.ini, in an application that would hardly
consume 4MB if written in C. I don't care if this application takes much longer
to run than it would in C, but eating that much memory is not acceptable.

So, my question is, how do I find out what is eating that much memory?
I'm suspicious of memory leaks, or very stupid garbage collection. Any help?

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Bruno Barberi Gnecco <brunobg_at_users.sourceforge.net>
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

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