Gabriel, you were right! It was a problem with jailshell / cpanel. We fixed it by disabling fork bomb protection.
For anybody else with this problem, look here... http://www.mickgenie.com/blog/jailed-shell-memory-issue/ http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/memory-issue-running-php-scripts-jailshell-account-126837.html Thanks for your help! Regards Jonathan On 23 Mar 2011, at 15:12, Gabriel Petchesi wrote: > My suspicion is that the limitation is not related to PHP or Apche in any > way, it's probably some setting on a system level that affects all running > processes. > That is why I said that you should try also with a compiled C program this > test to verify that the limitation affects all processes. > > Best regards, > > gabriel > > > > On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:43:57 PM UTC+2, Jonathan Franks wrote: > Hi Gabriel. Thanks! Following ur advice, I used a script to test memory usage > that I found here... > http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/Issue-Dec-2010/item/295-Are-you-getting-your-fair-share-of-PHP-memory?tmpl=component&print=1 > > And you were right! Through the web, the script happily gets up to 128mb but > from the cli it maxes out at 5mb. > > I've now emailed my host asking them to look at this. > > Do you or anyone else have any idea what settings other than memory_limit > might be effecting the, erm... memory limit?! > > I read online that the apache directive RLimitMEM also limits memory but I'm > not sure if the cli version of php works with apache or not? > > Any advice would be super helpful! Thanks! > > > On 22 Mar 2011, at 15:46, Gabriel Petchesi wrote: > > > Just a wild guess, maybe there is something on the hosting provider side > > that still limits process memory usage, so it may only look like it's not > > limited for PHP script. > > My suggestion is to test this assumption, create a simple PHP scripts that > > consumes memory and see how much memory it can consume before it reaches > > the limit. > > Also you could check by using a C program that malloc()-s some memory. > > > > In in both cases if there is some limitation to 5 MB the hosting provider > > will have to solve it. > > > > gabriel > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
