php-fastcgi and memory leaks

[Phillip B Oldham]

Grzegorz Nosek wrote:
> If you use 'ps auxf', you'll probably see that one of the php-cgi
> processes is the master, with all others hanging off from it as its
> children. By that time, spawn-fcgi is long gone (it called exec...() and
> became the master php process). BTW, do you really see increasing memory
> usage on all the processes including the parent?
>   
Yes, all processes, including the parent. I've set-up 3 children and one 
parent, and all 4 instances slowly grow in size.
> spawn-fcgi isn't really a process manager, it just starts your fastcgi
> server and hopes for the best. Anyway, only the php interpreter is to
> blame here.
>   
Thats what I thought.
> It shouldn't matter at all, the memory used for e.g. php code and
> variables should get properly freed at the end of the request. You might
> leak resources (database connections etc.) though. Are you using any
> non-standard php extensions?
>   
I don't know about non-standard. I'm not using any PECL entensions, but 
I have custom compiled the php instance on the box to include items such 
as IMAP support and turn off things that we don't use. My compile 
options are below:

./configure \
--disable-all \
--disable-ipv6 \
--disable-short-tags \
--disable-cli \
--with-zend-vm=GOTO \
--without-pear \
--enable-inline-optimization \
--enable-fast-install \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-discard-path \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--enable-zend-multibyte \
--enable-sigchild \
--enable-libgcc \
--enable-static \
--enable-libxml \
--enable-dom \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-spl \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-exif \
--enable-pdo \
--enable-session \
--enable-simplexml \
--enable-soap \
--enable-sockets \
--enable-zip \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-ctype \
--enable-json \
--enable-posix \
--enable-reflection \
--enable-tokenizer \
--enable-xml \
--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php5 \
--with-pcre-regex \
--with-pcre-dir \
--with-libxml-dir \
--with-openssl \
--with-kerberos \
--with-zlib \
--with-bz2 \
--with-curl \
--with-curlwrappers \
--with-gd \
--with-jpeg-dir \
--with-png-dir \
--with-ttf \
--with-freetype-dir \
--with-gettext \
--with-imap \
--with-imap-ssl \
--with-xmlrpc \
--with-xsl \
--with-iconv \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/bin \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql_config \
--with-gdbm \
--with-imap \
--with-imap-ssl

Don't know if any of those items are known to cause memory leaks.

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*Phillip B Oldham*
The Activity People
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