Re: [GeSHi-users] Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted

[Milian W. <ma...@mi...>]

Am Wednesday 27 August 2008 schrieb izua richard:
> Excuse my ignorance, but isn't PHP using a garbage collector? Maybe he
> actually *needs* all that memory.
> Emmanuel, you could try invoking geshi at some earlier point in your
> script. Sure, it won't solve your problem on the long term, and
> something else might trigger the memory limit. And this will fail, of
> course, if you load a 65MB file in memory to highlight :)

Of course PHP has a garbage collector, but if you take this as an excuse for 
not taking memory usage into account _at all_ your code won't scale any good. 
Simple examples where "even" PHP leaks memory:

for(;;) {
  create_function(...);
}

Or - and that I have seen _frequently_:

$geshi1 = new GeSHi("", $lang1);
$geshi2 = new GeSHi("", $lang2);
...
$geshiN = new GeSHi("", $lang3);

_no_ garbage collector will help you here.

PS: Show me _any_ web application (not intranet!, not backend!) which requires 
64MB of memory... Imo even 5MB is too much most of the times.
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