Hi fellow cakephpers, I've been a long time user of CakePHP and I've been satisfied since I first tried it. In fact, there's no more turning back for me ever since I started it. No framework matches CakePHP when it comes to ease of development.
However, very recently, I've encountered a problem I can't figure out the source. I'm dealing with Financial Data and being in finance, my application often have to crunch huge sets of data. I've always been very careful with how my application has handled the data as the data involve is huge and I could run into a memory leak if I don't clear those unused variables. This year, I was tasked to run a very heavy simulation on the financial data that involves possible 100 million mysql queries in a single run. As such, I'm very prepared to let the simulation run over a period of 1 month. However, within 2 days, the application threw a memory exhausted error. What really puzzled me was I had been very careful not to store any unused data in memory. In my algorithm, after I query the data, I store them in a temporary variable. At its final usage, I unset the variable despite knowing that the next iteration the data will be overwritten. That's just to be sure. After each round of simulation, the variables used are stored in the database. After the last $model->save(), I clear every variable used in the simulation, even if the data will be overwritten at the next iteration. All other persistent data throughout the iteration are either integers, floats or unchanging arrays. As such, there's no way these persistent data could be the cause of memory leak. I've debugged as much as I could to pin point the source of the memory leak in my controllers and models, but without any luck. I ran a smaller simulation and monitor the memory size each iteration, I noticed that the memory either stays the same or gets bigger. I still put my faith in CakePHP and I need expert advise on where this memory leak could be. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
