How are you executing top? Sounds like you need to use the -d option for
top. Example:
$exec - exec("top -d1");
This way, top won't, run and run and run, and run, and run, etc, etc, etc.
Try that
Paul
"Thomas E. Ruth" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using PHP 4.0.4pl1 with Apache 1.3.14.
>
> I have a PHP script that accumulates data for insertion into a database.
> This script runs in peices and unset()'s variables that contain the data
> periodically in hopes of freeing memory for the next batch of records.
> Apparently it's not working that way. When I run top and run my PHP
> script, the httpd process runs up to 125M of memory usage, and
> segfaults.
>
> Is there a parameter somewhere that says that httpd can't grow to over
> 128M of memory usage, or that PHP can't grow to more then this amount
> that I can change to prevent my web server from crashing? Or perhaps a
> garbage cleanup routine in PHP that actually frees memory that is no
> longer being used (these arrays hold max 5X25 of small <10 char
> strings). I unset these arrays after they are placed in the database
> (and I free the result for the database), but memory just climbs and
> climbs until the script ends (if I run it with arguments that yield
> smaller results).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
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