# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2007-01-15 16:43:50 +0000:
> Hi,
> I have a script parsing the lines of a (rather large) file:
>
> while (!feof($outPluginfh)) {
> $outPlugin = fgets ($outPluginfh,1024);
> # process $outPlugin here...
> ....
> }
>
> Now, with large files I was running into an memory allocation error
> (after 16MB of allocation..).
> It looks that php is allocating space for each fgets call, an not
> releasing it, in spite of the return value being always assigned to the
> same variable.
> I red in other posts that for removing this 16MB limit I can simply put
> the statement
> ini_set("memory_limit",-1);
> at the beginning, and in fact this line does the job.
What makes you sure that loop is the culprit? Does the script still
work if you set memory_limit to -1 right before the loop, and back to
its old value right after it?
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