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Demo PHP/Ajax slideshow server crashing [message #170902] Mon, 06 December 2010 15:45 Go to next message
pittendrigh is currently offline  pittendrigh
Messages: 4
Registered: December 2010
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I wanted to learn something about Ajax, so I wrote the following quick-
and-dirty slideshow demo starting from Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP/Ajax post
(about AJAX) to this group from (5,6,7,8 years ago?).

This "slideshow" is a little jerky because it does not do image to
image fading just yet. I'll worry about that later.

I put this on the main page of a page rank 4 website, looping over
approximately 100 images.
It ran for close to a week without incident. Then, out of curiosity, I
made the image collection closer to 1000 images.

That ran (seemingly) without incident for close to 8 hours (on a
virtual dedicated centos server at godaddy) and
then the apache server crashed. I reduced the number of images to 50
and restarted apache. And then the following has
been running (over 50 rather than 1000) images for another week
without incident. What crashed apache when the image
collection was large?

Would this be a memory leak/garbage collection issue?

<?php
session_start();

function is_image($file)
{
$ret=FALSE;
$dotpos = strrpos($file,'.');
if($dotpos)
{
$suffix = substr($file,$dotpos+1);
if(stristr($suffix,'jpg')
|| stristr($suffix,'jpeg')
|| stristr($suffix,'gif')
|| stristr($suffix,'png')
){ $ret=TRUE;}
}

return $ret;
}

function getImageFilenames($dir) {
$imageFilenames = array();
$cnt = 0;
if ($dir_handle = opendir($dir)) {
while (($file = readdir($dir_handle)) != false) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
if (is_image($file)) {
$imageFilenames[$cnt] = $file;
$cnt++;
}
}
}
closedir($dir_handle);
} else {
echo "failed to opendir $dir for some reason<br>";
exit();
}
return $imageFilenames;
}

if(!isset($_SESSION['imageFilenames']))
{
$_SESSION['imageFilenames'] = getImageFilenames("looper");
$_SESSION['cnt'] == count($_SESSION['imageFilenames']);
}

echo '
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var http = createRequestObject();

function createRequestObject()
{
var ro;
var browser = navigator.appName;
if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}else{
ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
return ro;
}

function doit()
{
setInterval("sndReq()", 4000);
}

function sndReq()
{
http.open(\'get\', \''.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'\');
http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
http.send(null);
}

function handleResponse()
{
if(http.readyState == 4)
{
var response = http.responseText;
var update = new Array();
if(response.indexOf(\'|||\' != -1))
{
update = response.split(\'|||\');
var obj = document.getElementById(\'foo\');
obj.style.background = \'url(looper/\' + update[4]
+ \') no-repeat center center\';
obj.innerHTML = update[4];
}
}
}
</script>';

$def = $_SESSION['imageFilenames'][0];

echo '
<style type="text/css">
html,body {width: 100%; height: 100%; background: #cccccc; }
#foo
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 1em;
color: white;
background: url(looper/'.$def.') no-repeat;
text-shadow: #222222 1px 1px 0px;
}

</style>
</head>

<body onload="doit()">';

$_SESSION['cnt'] += 1;
if($_SESSION['cnt'] > count($_SESSION['imageFilenames'])-1)
{
$_SESSION['cnt'] = 0;
}
$cnt = $_SESSION['cnt'];
$imgName = $_SESSION['imageFilenames'][$cnt];

// javascript in handleResponse () changes the background url for
div id="foo"
echo '<div id="foo"></div>';

echo '<div style="display: none;">'.$_SESSION['cnt'] .'|||foo|||'.
$imgName.'|||'.count($_SESSION['imageFilenames']).'</div>';

// show the page source, for some reason
highlight_file($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
echo '
</body>
</html>
';
Re: Demo PHP/Ajax slideshow server crashing [message #170903 is a reply to message #170902] Mon, 06 December 2010 16:44 Go to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
Messages: 2598
Registered: September 2010
Karma: 0
Senior Member
On 12/6/2010 10:45 AM, pittendrigh wrote:
> I wanted to learn something about Ajax, so I wrote the following quick-
> and-dirty slideshow demo starting from Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP/Ajax post
> (about AJAX) to this group from (5,6,7,8 years ago?).
>
> This "slideshow" is a little jerky because it does not do image to
> image fading just yet. I'll worry about that later.
>
> I put this on the main page of a page rank 4 website, looping over
> approximately 100 images.
> It ran for close to a week without incident. Then, out of curiosity, I
> made the image collection closer to 1000 images.
>
> That ran (seemingly) without incident for close to 8 hours (on a
> virtual dedicated centos server at godaddy) and
> then the apache server crashed. I reduced the number of images to 50
> and restarted apache. And then the following has
> been running (over 50 rather than 1000) images for another week
> without incident. What crashed apache when the image
> collection was large?
>
> Would this be a memory leak/garbage collection issue?
>
> <?php
> session_start();
>
> function is_image($file)
> {
> $ret=FALSE;
> $dotpos = strrpos($file,'.');
> if($dotpos)
> {
> $suffix = substr($file,$dotpos+1);
> if(stristr($suffix,'jpg')
> || stristr($suffix,'jpeg')
> || stristr($suffix,'gif')
> || stristr($suffix,'png')
> ){ $ret=TRUE;}
> }
>
> return $ret;
> }
>
> function getImageFilenames($dir) {
> $imageFilenames = array();
> $cnt = 0;
> if ($dir_handle = opendir($dir)) {
> while (($file = readdir($dir_handle)) != false) {
> if ($file != '.'&& $file != '..') {
> if (is_image($file)) {
> $imageFilenames[$cnt] = $file;
> $cnt++;
> }
> }
> }
> closedir($dir_handle);
> } else {
> echo "failed to opendir $dir for some reason<br>";
> exit();
> }
> return $imageFilenames;
> }
>
> if(!isset($_SESSION['imageFilenames']))
> {
> $_SESSION['imageFilenames'] = getImageFilenames("looper");
> $_SESSION['cnt'] == count($_SESSION['imageFilenames']);
> }
>
> echo '
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var http = createRequestObject();
>
> function createRequestObject()
> {
> var ro;
> var browser = navigator.appName;
> if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){
> ro = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
> }else{
> ro = new XMLHttpRequest();
> }
> return ro;
> }
>
> function doit()
> {
> setInterval("sndReq()", 4000);
> }
>
> function sndReq()
> {
> http.open(\'get\', \''.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'\');
> http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
> http.send(null);
> }
>
> function handleResponse()
> {
> if(http.readyState == 4)
> {
> var response = http.responseText;
> var update = new Array();
> if(response.indexOf(\'|||\' != -1))
> {
> update = response.split(\'|||\');
> var obj = document.getElementById(\'foo\');
> obj.style.background = \'url(looper/\' + update[4]
> + \') no-repeat center center\';
> obj.innerHTML = update[4];
> }
> }
> }
> </script>';
>
> $def = $_SESSION['imageFilenames'][0];
>
> echo '
> <style type="text/css">
> html,body {width: 100%; height: 100%; background: #cccccc; }
> #foo
> {
> width: 300px;
> height: 200px;
> margin: 0 auto;
> padding: 1em;
> color: white;
> background: url(looper/'.$def.') no-repeat;
> text-shadow: #222222 1px 1px 0px;
> }
>
> </style>
> </head>
>
> <body onload="doit()">';
>
> $_SESSION['cnt'] += 1;
> if($_SESSION['cnt']> count($_SESSION['imageFilenames'])-1)
> {
> $_SESSION['cnt'] = 0;
> }
> $cnt = $_SESSION['cnt'];
> $imgName = $_SESSION['imageFilenames'][$cnt];
>
> // javascript in handleResponse () changes the background url for
> div id="foo"
> echo '<div id="foo"></div>';
>
> echo '<div style="display: none;">'.$_SESSION['cnt'] .'|||foo|||'.
> $imgName.'|||'.count($_SESSION['imageFilenames']).'</div>';
>
> // show the page source, for some reason
> highlight_file($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
> echo '
> </body>
> </html>
> ';

Who knows? What's your Apache error log show?

Your crash may or may not be related to this.

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