ID: 48416 Updated by: scott...@php.net Reported By: bmorel at ssi dot fr -Status: Feedback +Status: Closed Bug Type: Regexps related Operating System: CentOS 5.3 PHP Version: 5.2.9 New Comment:
This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Added a LRU and a cache limit to the ereg code for 5.3. Give it a few hours and grab another 5.3 snapshot, not sure about fixing this in 5.2. Will check with ilia. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-05-28 18:17:49] bmorel at ssi dot fr Sorry, same problem with this snapshot (PHP 5.3.0RC3-dev : php5.3-200905281630). The cache seems to be a good explanation, but it this a good idea ? I have millions of ereg()s done when I parse huge XML files (several GB), and my memory usage goes too high. I had to replace all my ereg()s with preg_match()s. Thanks, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-05-28 17:30:21] scott...@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5.3-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://windows.php.net/snapshots/ Pretty sure this is due to the regular expression cache we have, each unique regular expression is cached so we don't keep compiling it but there is no cap on the number we store. Can you try a 5.3 snapshot, I think we switched from using ereg to pcre with 5.3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-05-28 16:57:59] bmorel at ssi dot fr Description: ------------ When repeating an ereg() or eregi() on different patterns, the memory usage of httpd (or php if executed from the command-line) gets huge (about 1GB for the example below) for the time the script executes, then the memory is freed. During this time, the memory_get_usage() stays normal, and php's memory limit doesn't trigger. When repeating the ereg() with the same pattern each time, the memory usage stays normal; this happens only when repeating with a different pattern each time. Verified on CentOS with PHP 5.2.6 & 5.2.9 Verified on Windows XP with PHP 5.2.8 Reproduce code: --------------- <?php for ($i=0;$i<1000000;$i++) ereg("$i","test"); ?> Expected result: ---------------- Memory usage staying low. Actual result: -------------- Memory usage as shown by "top -d 1" gets huge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=48416&edit=1
