Whats your memory_limit set to in php.ini - looks like 768MB from your
error message.

You might want to set it to -1 which is no memory limit and see what happens..

Try phpinfo as well.

Matt

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now that I have the other problem fixed I want to revisit the issue of large
> file handling -
>
> This is the code (placed within an array loop) -
> ----------------------------------
> // Determine MIME type:
> $mt=MIME_Type::autoDetect("$filename");
>
> // If suitable MIME type open, read and process:
> if (substr($mt,0,4) == "text") {
>
> // read the file:
> $content = file_get_contents($filename,FILE_TEXT);
>
> // extract the information:
> preg_match_all($pattern,$content,$matches);
>
> // add it to our array:
> foreach($matches[0] as $m) $results[] = $m;
>
> // unset the temporary array:
> unset($matches);
>
> // count valid file(s) scanned:
> $pv = $pv + 1;
>
> }; // end the MIME type statement
> ------------------------------------
> What is happening is that when I try and read a 1.9Gb text file, it fails,
> with the following error message:
> Scanning files:
> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 805306368 bytes exhausted (tried to
> allocate 2023554020 bytes) in /www/scan.php on line 124
>
> Now the fix is probably pretty straight forward - does anyone have any idea
> please?
>
> Thanks in anticipation,
>
> Michael
>
> >
>

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