The new memory manager actually wastes less memory than the old one, scales better and most important to this discussion, the memory consumption is far more accurate as it also takes into account the memory manager overhead. Therefore, we are not consuming 1.5x memory, but we are reporting a more accurate number which is about 1.5x of what the old one reported. My suggestion is to raise the limit to 16M both in the php.ini* files that come with PHP and in the source.
Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Esser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 5:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] increase the default memory limit in 5.2.0+ > > Hello, > > After having tested 5.2 and the new memory manager for a couple of > > weeks, I notice a significant increase of the reported > memory usage. > > As a side effect, many applications reach the 8M memory > limit. It can > > be a problem. > > > > A good example is to compare the usage of a pear/pecl > command between > > 5.1 and 5.2. > > > The question is why do we want a new memory manager that > seems to allocate 1.5 times more memory than the old one. > I haven't looked into it yet, but for me this looks like a > waste of ressources. What are the advantages of it. I really > doubt, that a significant speed increase can be measured, and > I wonder if it worth the waste of memory. > > Yours, > Stefan Esser > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To > unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
