Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite and Memory

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:03, Matthew McNaney wrote:
> Recently questions have been raised about phpWebSite's memory requirements.
> Today, Brian and I tested these constraints and wanted to share what we
> found.
> 
> Memory constraints were determined by the memory_limit value in php.ini.
> Testing was performed with converted data from a high traffic university
> site.

Matt,
The good thing is memory_limit isn't a system value, so it can be
changed in .htaccess.

    php_value memory_limit "12M"

ref.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.directives.php#AEN2344

> Results:
> 
> o phpWebSite's core installation runs within a 5MB limit.
> 
> o A complete installation runs within a 9MB limit.
> 
> o phpWebSite WILL run under the default 8MB php installation, however you
> will need to limit the modules installed.
> 
> We found you can expect to add about 400k - 600k per module beyond the
> base installation. The good news is that testing showed there wasn't any
> ONE module that gobbled up the majority of the memory.
> 
> Adopting an object oriented approach to programming carries with it
> increased memory requirements, but the modularity and functionality gained
> with this approach outweighs the additional cost in terms of memory.
> 
> We still feel that phpWebSite memory requirements are modest relative to
> most software packages that provide its wide range of functionality.
> 
> Of course we still strive to tighten the code where possible but we don't
> believe these base recommendations to change significantly.

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