On Tue, April 17, 2007 3:18 am, David Sklar wrote:
> On 4/17/07, Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> A soft memory limit could be very useful; it doesn't necessarily
>> need to throw
>> an error, but it would provide an opportunity to free some memory
>> and prevent
>> the script from crashing. Perhaps something like:
>>
>> // function to call when memory is running out
>> register_memory_limit_handler('freeSomeMemory');
>> function freeSomeMemory() {
>> $GLOBALS['someBigCache'] = null;
>> }
>
> My intention with the grace limit was to provide a graceful way of
> failing, not to continue processing in a reduced state -- as Stanislav
> said above, it could be difficult to do a lot after the allocation has
> failed.
And we are suggesting that PHP Developers be provided with hooks to
anticipate failure BEFORE it happens, and to take pro-active measures
to see that there is no failure, rather than have some kind of
post-failure effort to do something.
For example, perhaps one could register a hook function to be called
when we are within 80% of the memory_limit setting, and another hook
if we reach 90%.
I presume one could just hack that with some kind of 'ticks' function
and memory_get_usage, but it probably wouldn't be nearly as efficient
as something more generic than the current hard failure in the engine.
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