On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:

> Hello,
>
> While reading the bugs reports I came up with something I did not
> expect with the bug 27714. Maybe I have had too much ram in the past
> years ;)
>
> So this is bug is bogus, and this is the expected behavior. Unset
> (or set the var null) frees the memory only if memory_limit is enabled
> and not equal to -1 (unlimited) for both php5 and php4.

memory_limit has nothing to with the real memory usage. m_l only is
internal emalloc'ed and efree'd memory.

> Why? That's sound a bit silly to me, as that makes the related
> functions useless and does not allow anyone to free a huge variable
> when he does not need it anymore. My main problem is when I use CLI  or
> gtk scripts.
>
> Or is there any "performance" issues there?

I think it's a default unix thing actually :)

Derick

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