Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted (CodeIgniter + XML-RPC)

Question

I have a bunch of client point of sale (POS) systems that periodically send new sales data to one centralized database, which stores the data into one big database for repor

Answer 1

When adding 22.5 million records into an array with array_push I kept getting "memory exhausted" fatal errors at around 20M records using 4G as the memory limit in file php.ini. To fix this, I added the statement

$old = ini_set('memory_limit', '8192M');

at the top of the file. Now everything is working fine. I do not know if PHP has a memory leak. That is not my job, nor do I care. I just have to get my job done, and this worked.

The program is very simple:

$fh = fopen($myfile);
while (!feof($fh)) {
    array_push($file, stripslashes(fgets($fh)));
}
fclose($fh);

The fatal error points to line 3 until I boosted the memory limit, which eliminated the error.