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I am working with two PHP packages at the moment: a GPL content management system (CMS Made Simple) and a commercial shopping cart (Shop-Script Pro) and both of them seem to be constantly breaking through my PHP INI memory limit. I suspect memory leakage as the reason. I have upped the limit to 48M but still I get occasional demands beyond this limit. And the site is not even live yet!
So I have a few questions - I hope someone may have answers...
(1) When PHP warns that a memory limit has been exceeded, does it mean by the script itself, or by the server instance demand overall?
(2) Is there a simple way to monitor how much memory a script is using at the point when it it called (perhaps a function I can include and turn on/off as needed for debugging)?
(3) Is there a line of code I can add at the end of a script that clears all the arrays, etc., that script has created? Or does PHP do this nicely anyway?
FYI, I am an ASP programmer blindly feeling my way through PHP...
Tony
1. [php.net...]
This sets the maximum amount of memory in bytes that a script is allowed to allocate. This helps prevent poorly written scripts for eating up all available memory on a server. Note that to have no memory limit, set this directive to -1.
2. you could do this via the command line, such as using ps
3. php cleans up when it finishes executing the script
