Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/27/07 22:27

..oO(Jerry Stuckle)

>DiAvOl wrote:
>
>> I am running a stream_select server which actually runs forever
>> (daemon mode) and I worried because the Resource id number is around
>> 29000 so far and I don't know what happens if that number increases
>> forever. Another reason for asking is because maybe someone have read
>> the source code and knows better about it.
>
>So? Do you think it's going to run for years without a server reboot?

Possible.

>NOTHING runs forever!

Just think of older Windows versions - without reboot they crashed after
49 days because of an internal integer overflow. But I really think that
the PHP interpreter is capable of handling such things and clever enough
to re-use free resource IDs if necessary.

>How long has it been running to get to 29K?

I was about to ask a similar question. And even if PHP would just
increase the number - what about the "natural" limits? A 32bit signed
integer is more than 2*10^9, unsigned it's twice as big (I simply assume
PHP doesn't use just 16bit words ...)

Micha

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