Posted by melmack3 on 09/08/07 16:37

Hi

I have a big problem with shell commands execution via PHP.
I have written a very short PHP script ilustrating the problem:

<?php

for($i=0;$i<1000;$i++)
{
exec("test.bat");
}

?>

test.bat is just an empty file.

This script causes about 10 MB memory leak. It can be observed
by usage of performance system monitor. This problems occurs in
all available enviroments:
- IIS Webserver.
- Apache webserver
- PHP command line interpreter

Memory leak is observable only on Windows platform
(tested on Windows XP). On Linux everything works OK.

Does someone know how to solve this problem? Any help appreciated

Best regards
Melmack

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