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tawfekov
tawfekov

Reputation: 5122

How to tell if the PHP's garbage collector ran or not

I have very bad code written in php. It consumes a lot memory, and then it brakes down, clears the sessions and bows!

I need to know when the garbage collector runs, so that I can prove that this is indeed the case, but as far as i know php5.2 doesn't provide such of functions. The code is written by an inexperienced developer.

How can I tell if the PHP's garbage collector ran or not?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 884

Answers (1)

troelskn
troelskn

Reputation: 117487

Prior to 5.3, PHP doesn't do garbage collection. The memory-management strategy is reference counting. Even in 5.3, garbage collection is an optional add-on to the main refcount mechanism.

Upvotes: 5

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