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Re: about memory usage with application written with php and mysql [message #172537 is a reply to message #172532]

Mon, 21 February 2011 17:28

Jerry Stuckle
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On 2/21/2011 11:51 AM, lovecreatesbeauty wrote:
> On Feb 21, 9:11?pm, "álvaro G. Vicario"
> <alvaro.NOSPAMTH...@demogracia.com.invalid> wrote:
>> I'm not sure about your exact question but Linux tends to consider free
>> memory as a wasted resource (why purchase RAM if you are not using it?)
>> so it normally tries to give it some use (cache or whatever). System
>> load is often a better indicator.
>
> Thank you.
>
> From 89.5% (375900k - 39172k) to 98.7% (375900k - 4876k) of the memory
> is lost in my Php code issuing connection to Mysql. Some queries to
> database may return records of ten thousand.
>
> The Php mannual says it has garbage collection and mysql_close is not
> needed. How can the code lead to memory lose like that? Is the code
> wrong and needs to be rewritten?

As álvaro said - Linux will use memory for buffers, cache, etc. So will
MySQL. Your figures do not necessarily indicate a problem.

And php.net seems to say a lot of things which are not good programming
practice. One of the keys to good programming is to ALWAYS clean up
after yourself - don't expect someone else to do it for you. This
means, for instance, you should always free your result set when you're
done with it, and close the connection when you're through with MySQL.

I think it's comments like these which encourage poor programming
practices in PHP and leads to sloppy code (and problems).

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		about memory usage with application written with php and mysql By: lovecreatesbeauty on Mon, 21 February 2011 12:30
		Re: about memory usage with application written with php and mysql By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Mon, 21 February 2011 13:11
		Re: about memory usage with application written with php and mysql By: lovecreatesbeauty on Mon, 21 February 2011 16:51
		Re: about memory usage with application written with php and mysql By: Peter H. Coffin on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:01
		Re: about memory usage with application written with php and mysql By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 21 February 2011 17:28

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