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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] persistent memory management
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

 Hi,
Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I am trying to make my first php extension :)
> I am sorry, if the question would be too newbiesh, but I just couldn't
> find a more correct place to ask
> 
> here is the code:
> http://loccache.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/loccache.c
> 
> I am trying to do the following:
> at the minit-phase I am allocating a persistent HashTable
> extension has 4 funcitons:
>    * loc_set($namespace, $varname, $value); // stores $value
>    * loc_get($namespace, $varname) // returns $value from storage
>    * loc_isset($namespace, $varname) // returns bool
>    * loc_unset($namespace, $varname) // removes varname from storage
> during loc_set, I chech if there is "$namespace" item in my persistent
> hashtable, and if there isn't, I create it as a child hashtable
> $varname is a key in that second HashTable and $value is the value
> 
> something like:
> $big_persistent_hash = array(
>     $namespace => array(
>         $varname => $value
>     )
> );
> 
> extension build and even tends to work... kinda..
> 
> unfortunately, persistent values are not too persistent in my case, and
> i keep getting memory errors.
> I would be grateful for any help. the source code is not too big :)

Tried running the web server under memory checker like valgrind?
Maybe instead of peamlloc() just do malloc()
Andrey