Possible memory leak?

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    I bought a site from someone, and if I don't have a cron job to restart apache every hour the site slows to a crawl, and eventually no one can get in until traffic dies down. Is this normal for a site written in PHP? I believe I have some kind of memory problem. Is there a way to force the release of memory by PHP faster? Ideally I would want all the memory returned once the page has been served, but while I know programming, I am clueless as to how the php-apache interface works.
    Is it possible to have a memory leak in PHP?
     
    maxtower, Nov 23, 2006 IP
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    thedark Well-Known Member

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    i think the problem is at the hosting machine
     
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    Does the script fork and create threads to do other tasks without cleaning them up? Grep the script's files for pcntl_fork.
     
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    Are there any other php calls that could fork another process?
     
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