Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:41092 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 72915 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2008 21:14:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Oct 2008 21:14:51 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.41.135.70 82-41-135-70.cable.ubr02.grth.blueyonder.co.uk Received: from [82.41.135.70] ([82.41.135.70:17752] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 91/B6-39277-B4D56F84 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:14:51 -0400 Message-ID: <91.B6.39277.B4D56F84@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:13:38 +0100 Reply-To: nrixham@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 82.41.135.70 Subject: Garbage Collection From: nrixham@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) Evening All, Could anybody either point me to some existing documentation as to the specifics of Garbage Collection in PHP; specifically for multi-process (forked) CLI applications. Specifically when is a variable a candidate for garbage collection (the criteria); what timing can one expect to see memory freed/gc cleanup run; any way's to force or tip's n tricks in this area - basically anything to go off would be very much appreciated. Many Regards!