Ok, this is a pretty intersting one, and I'm not even sure if it's a bug or just a memory limit thing. I am using a php wrapper for content files (.jpg|.gif|.asf|.mov|.ram), as you can guess, the movie files can be pretty large, upwards of 10MB, all getting read into memory, then spit back out. Couple that with a site that gets 10K+ visits a day and the server is on its knees with a load average of about 10 (when it gets to 25/30 things start swapping and it will dies not long after that.)

here's the code used to wrap the content:

<?php
$mime_type = strtolower(strrchr($f,'.'));
$mime_type_array = array(
        '.asf' => 'application/vnd.ms-asf',
        '.jpg' => 'image/jpeg',
        '.gif' => 'image/gif'
        );

if(!in_array($mime_type,array_keys($mime_type_array)))
        {
        header("Location: /error.php");
        }

$offset = 86400 * 3;
header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T", time() + $offset));
header("Cache-Control: max-age=".$offset.", must-revalidate");
header("Last-modified : ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T", filemtime("/web/sites/contentsite/".$f)));
header("Content-type: ".$mime_type_array[$mime_type]);
header("Content-length: ".filesize("/web/sites/contentsite/".$f));
@readfile("/web/sites/contentsite/".$f);
?>

so, I would pass an image or movie to the content file with a url like so:

http://contentsite.com/content.php?f=movies/bigmovie.asf


This is really just a heads up at this point, I know it will take you guys a little while to sort through this one, I'm not even sure it's a bug considering readfile is SUPPOSED to read a file into memory and spit it back out. I dunno, for now I'm going to do some .htaccess tricks where I force php to parse .htaccess files. If anyone has come across this or has any insight on wrapping content in php files, please email me at stephen@national-net.com

Thanks!
Stephen VanDyke

PS - aside from that, great language, I love PHP :)