> Sorry if this is an old subject but it's new to me. I have a 'default' > Fedora Core 1 installation of Apache2 v2.0.48 and php v4.3.8. I've > noticed a problem in one of the scripts i had written a few months ago, > but I was testing it on a Red Hat 8 system at the time and I'm not sure > if the memory limit is default on that system or not. Anyway, what I've > got is a script that is generating thumbnails from a batch of images in > a directory, about 5000 images are being counted. While the script > worked fine when i wrote it a few months ago, on the different system, > I was recently trying to use it and was repeatedly getting memory limit > errors at an 8MB limit. What the script does is load an image in > memory, create three different thumbnail sizes for the image, > imagedestroy() is being called after each thumbnail build to kill the > thumb, and then finally I'm calling imagedestroy() at the end of the > iteration for that image to kill the original in memory before going on > to the next image. What it appears to me is that imagedestroy() is not > actually freeing the memory for use on the next cycle. While this > doesn't really effect the scripts I have that are just generating > thumbnails from a single image, the batch scripts I have are > continually failing after about three iterations. I did increase the > memory limit enough to get the script to finish, and php is apparently > doing it's job in cleaning up when the script finishes so there's not a > real threat to the server if I run the scripts during slow times. But > it is a bit annoying that the function isn't working as it should. I > noticed a few memory issues in the bugs pages relating to gd, and the > resolution stated that it was a gd problem, so I didn't want to bother > the php maintainers with another one. What I'm wondering is if anyone > else has noticed this behavior, and aside from increasing the memory > limit, have you found an alternative? I'm really trying to keep the > scripts I have portable, so I haven't looked at ImageMagic, but I was > wondering if the shmop functions might be the way to go with this. I do > have reservations about using that though since it's not a 'default' in > the build and I have some servers that I have no control over the > software side of things, and I am trying to make these as generic as > possible. If you've gotten this far thanks, sorry it turned out to be > so long, but this is a rather important problem in what I'm coding. It's entirely possible that imagedestroy() works fine, but you've got some *other* memory leak going on... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
