On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:57:02PM -0700, Tommy Pham wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Jim Long <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm running PHP 5.3.8 on FreeBSD 8.2 with MySQL 5.1.55. > > > > > Jim, > > Installed from packages or standard port tree build? Did you do any tweak > for the ports build? Any special compiler parameters in your make.conf? > I've noticed that you used MySQL extensions. Have you tried MySQLi to see > if there's any difference? > > Regards, > Tommy MySQL server and PHP and extensions built from ports, without any local tweaks. Nothing very interesting in /etc/make.conf: MASTER_SITE_FREEBSD=1 CPUTYPE?=p3 USA_RESIDENT=YES NO_INET6=YES WITHOUT_IPV6=YES NO_I4B=true NO_BLUETOOTH=true NO_IPFILTER=true NO_KERBEROS=true NO_ATM=true # do not build ATM related programs and libraries NOUUCP=true # do not build uucp related programs NO_UUCP=true # do not build uucp related programs NO_GAMES=true NO_PROFILE=true PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 Port options for php5-extensions are: _OPTIONS_READ=php5-extensions-1.5 WITH_BCMATH=true WITHOUT_BZ2=true WITHOUT_CALENDAR=true WITH_CTYPE=true WITHOUT_CURL=true WITHOUT_DBA=true WITH_DOM=true WITHOUT_EXIF=true WITH_FILEINFO=true WITH_FILTER=true WITHOUT_FRIBIDI=true WITH_FTP=true WITHOUT_GD=true WITHOUT_GETTEXT=true WITHOUT_GMP=true WITH_HASH=true WITHOUT_ICONV=true WITHOUT_IMAP=true WITHOUT_INTERBASE=true WITH_JSON=true WITHOUT_LDAP=true WITHOUT_MBSTRING=true WITHOUT_MCRYPT=true WITHOUT_MSSQL=true WITH_MYSQL=true WITHOUT_MYSQLI=true WITHOUT_ODBC=true WITHOUT_OPENSSL=true WITHOUT_PCNTL=true WITH_PDF=true WITH_PDO=true WITHOUT_PDO_SQLITE=true WITH_PGSQL=true WITH_POSIX=true WITHOUT_PSPELL=true WITHOUT_READLINE=true WITHOUT_RECODE=true WITH_SESSION=true WITHOUT_SHMOP=true WITH_SIMPLEXML=true WITHOUT_SNMP=true WITHOUT_SOAP=true WITHOUT_SOCKETS=true WITHOUT_SQLITE=true WITHOUT_SQLITE3=true WITHOUT_SYBASE_CT=true WITHOUT_SYSVMSG=true WITHOUT_SYSVSEM=true WITHOUT_SYSVSHM=true WITHOUT_TIDY=true WITH_TOKENIZER=true WITHOUT_WDDX=true WITH_XML=true WITH_XMLREADER=true WITHOUT_XMLRPC=true WITH_XMLWRITER=true WITHOUT_XSL=true WITHOUT_YAZ=true WITHOUT_ZIP=true WITHOUT_ZLIB=true As Daniel suggested, using mysql_query_unbuffered works a treat, at the expense of a small amount of additional programming complexity. In my prior work with Postgres, I found that it would handle small or large datasets with equal ease, so I was surprised to find that MySQL blew up given a sufficient number of repeated calls to mysql_fetch_row(); Thank you for mentioning MySQLi. Although it is alphabetically adjacent in the documentation, it had never drawn my attention. I'll build the PHP extension and take a look when time permits. Jim -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php