Shouldn't you be able to disable that cache though?
John
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:53, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> This is not a bug, but rather expected behavior. PCRE extension caches
> compiled regular expressions so that subsequent runs of the same regex do not
> need to perform the compilation step. In your example you are generating new
> regex in an unterminated loop, so it's no surprise that PHP eventually
> exhausts the available memory and terminates.
>
> Ilia
>
> On August 24, 2004 08:28 am, Jason wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm looking for the maintainer of the preg_match
> > function in PHP. There appears to be a nasty leak in
> > its most basic functionality, and being a very
> > fundamental function of PHP (not to mention that my
> > long running scripts use it a lot ;) I thought I'd try
> > and go the direct route. Sorry, I don't know C or I'd
> > try to fix it myself! Considering its nature I
> > thought best to at least make a post to the list
> > rather than it get lost in the bugs pile (the original
> > (much less refined) report from someone else had been
> > sitting a long time).
> >
> > <?
> > while (1) {
> > $body = "any string";
> > $rand = "any different
> > strings".mt_rand(0,mt_getrandmax());
> > $pattern = "/$rand/";
> > preg_match($pattern, $body, $match);
> > }
> > ?>
> >
> > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28513
> >
> > This leaks 50MB per second on my PHP5.0.0,5.0.1. It
> > is probably the similar bug reported in PHP4. If you
> > have any suggestions, please let me know!
> >
> > Sincere regards,
> >
> > Jason.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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