ID: 38505 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: trevan at therichins dot net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Debian sid (linux kernel 2.4.29) PHP Version: 5.1.5 New Comment:
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-08-18 22:04:46] trevan at therichins dot net Description: ------------ I discovered a memory leak in my script and so was looking through the database to see if it was fixed in CVS. That brought me to bug #26982 which is identical to my problem. The answer given there was that it is expected behaviour, but I don't quite understand why? I would have expected the behaviour to have an increase in memory usage but than have it stop after the garbage collector catches up. But, I am instead seeing the memory constantly increase. This behaviour prevents PHP from being used as a Linux service (which is what I am trying to do) as many php libraries out there use this method to create strings. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $database = 'mysql'; while (1) { $old = memory_get_usage(); "database_{$database}"; $new = memory_get_usage(); echo $new - $old; echo "\n"; sleep(1); } ?> Expected result: ---------------- I would expect the memory to go up for a while and then stop as the garbage collector catches up and cleans out the old strings. Actual result: -------------- It shows a constant increase of 16 bytes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38505&edit=1
