Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:41100 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 87062 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2008 21:54:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Oct 2008 21:54:35 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.41.135.70 82-41-135-70.cable.ubr02.grth.blueyonder.co.uk Received: from [82.41.135.70] ([82.41.135.70:29057] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FB/12-10880-A9666F84 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:54:34 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:53:22 +0100 Reply-To: nrixham@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <91.B6.39277.B4D56F84@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 82.41.135.70 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Garbage Collection From: nrixham@gmail.com (Nathan Rixham) Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Nathan Rixham wrote: > >> 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. > > It implements the following algorithm: > http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/papers/Bacon03Pure.pdf > > With a root buffer size of 10000. > > regards, > Derick > perfect thanks! :-)