Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/24/07 01:35

Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:
> 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?
>

Without knowing what your application does, it's impossible to tell.

But I know I've handled some very large files (i.e. log files, XML,
etc.) in 8MB of memory without any problems.

I've even parsed a (rather poorly written) html page that's > 10Mb and
still not run out of memory at 8MB.


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