Tracking Memory Usage in PHP

Question

I\'m trying to track the memory usage of a script that processes URLs. The basic idea is to check that there\'s a reasonable buffer before adding another URL to a cURL multi

Answer 1

Well I have never really had a memory problem with my PHP scripts so I do not think I could be of much help finding the cause of the problem but what I can recomend is that you get a PHP accelerator, you will notice a serious performance increase and memory usage with decline. Here is a list of accelerators and an article comparing a few of them (3x better performance with any of them)

Wikipedia List

Benchmark

The benchmarks are 2 years old but you get the idea of the performance increases.

If you have to you can also increase you memory limit in PHP if you are still having problems even with the accelerator. Open up your php.ini and find:

memory_limit = 32M;

and just increase it a little.