ID: 28131
User updated by: webmaster at macway dot com
Reported By: webmaster at macway dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Reproducible crash
Operating System: Windows XP
PHP Version: 4.3.6
New Comment:
Sorry, it does not work on Mac OS X either !
Previous Comments:
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[2004-04-26 19:05:40] webmaster at macway dot com
>The problemis that ZE1 has a limit of 64k references
> before it overflows and causes this problem.
Thanks, but does your hypothesis explains this :
- It works perfectly under Mac OS X.3 (did not test any
other unix). So it seems to be windows only (do you
agree).
- if I have 4 different arrays, I can only have 4x16K
records and not 4x64K records. So it seems the total
number of record of all arrays is limited to 16K (and
not 64K x number of different arrays).
I did test it with 4 different arrays containing 10000
records and its ok, with 20000 records in each it
crashes.
Thanks for your insight
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[2004-04-26 18:48:55] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ah, this bug.
It is to do with the COW reference created by the engine
when you copy $chunk around. Since it is the same chunk, the engine
saves copying the 1MB and adds a reference to the variable. The
problem is that ZE1 has a limit of 64k references before it overflows
and causes this problem.
It has nothing to do with memory usage.
It is a known bug in this database (although I couldn't find it just
now; it *is* in here somewhere).
This problem will not be fixed in PHP 4.x, but has already been
addressed in PHP 5.
Workaround: use $toto .= str_repeat('a', 1024) inside the main loop, as
this returns unique strings on each iteration.
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[2004-04-26 18:02:22] webmaster at macway dot com
> wez
Ok perharps its works with str_repeat, but it doesn't
seem to work with array.
Please check with my code. Maybe I badly worded it,;
maybe it's just with arrays, check with my lateest code
please
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[2004-04-26 17:53:33] webmaster at macway dot com
As I just said, I retested it with PHP 4.3.6 ALONE
(without any webserver) using the php.exe under windows
XP.
So it's clearly a problem with PHP 4.3.6 itself
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[2004-04-26 17:32:16] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions.
Thank you for your interest in PHP.
My 512MB laptop running XP will allocate 800MB (probably as much as the
page file size, if I pushed it).
C:\php4>php -r "$x = str_repeat('*', 128 * 1024 * 1024); echo 'Done';"
Done
C:\php4>php -r "$x = str_repeat('*', 400 * 1024 * 1024); echo 'Done';"
Done
C:\php4>php -r "$x = str_repeat('*', 600 * 1024 * 1024); echo 'Done';"
Done
C:\php4>php -r "$x = str_repeat('*', 800 * 1024 * 1024); echo 'Done';"
Done
C:\php4>php -r "$x = str_repeat('*', 1280 * 1024 * 1024); echo
'Done';"
FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 1342177281 bytes
It works fine; no crashes. You must have something wrong with your
configuration; check your memory_limit and error_reporting settings and
talk to someone on a support channel to discover the reason that you
have problems with this.
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