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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:16:30 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] memory_limit default
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Pascal Chevrel <pascal.chevrel@free.fr>
wrote:

> Hi internals people,
>
> I was curious to know why the memory limit in php.ini was set to 128MB so
> I digged into the repository history and I saw that it was bumped from 16=
MB
> to that value in 2006: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/
> 3ffc1c8f4a1e4c1658f94038e009e226258a65a4#diff-
> 299b21e0851494929e62b81e8d91b5b3
>
> Since there is no reference to a bug in the commit and I couldn't find
> anything about it on the net, I thought I would ask at the source in
> internals.
>
> Was it changed because the defaut value was too low for PHP to work
> correctly? Or was the change done to reflect the state of hosting solutio=
ns
> back then? I am curious to know why 128 and not 64 or 256 actually. If th=
is
> is the result of an analysis of the state of hosting, I am also wondering
> if 8 years later php.ini settings that depend on hardware like memory are
> still the right defaults.
>
> Thanks for your hindsight on this!
>
> Pascal
>
>
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>
adding Dmitry to the thread.


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