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Bug #29450 massive memmory problem in domxml_open_mem
Submitted: 2004-07-29 22:02 UTC Modified: 2004-07-30 17:41 UTC
From: bo at theaddedones dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: DOM XML related
PHP Version: 4.3.8 OS: MAC OS X, AMD Altholon, SOLARIS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-07-29 22:02 UTC] bo at theaddedones dot com 
Description:
------------
I know this issue has been resolved in PHP 5.0 using DomDocument::loadXML, BUT in non 5.0 versions, the loading of  string XML (memmory) bits has some serious garbage collection problems...namely repeated calls to domxml_open_mem eats the memmory of the system alive....

unsetting variables has no effect....

Reproduce code:
---------------
$tt  = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<data>
        <ff>
                <rrr>555</rrr>
                <rrrr>5555</rrrr>
                <rrrrr>55555</rrrrr>
                <rrrrrr>555555</rrrrrr>
                <rrrrrrr>5555555</rrrrrrr>
                <rrrrrrrr>55555555</rrrrrrrr>
                <rrrrrrrrr>555555555</rrrrrrrrr>
        </ff>
</data>'; 
for($i=0;$i<100000;$i++){
	$dd  = domxml_open_mem($tt);
	unset($dd);
}	

Expected result:
----------------
not to have the system memory jump by Megabytes...if the loop is left for longer it will eventually chew all resources

Actual result:
--------------
massive eating of memmory

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 [2004-07-29 22:09 UTC] bo at theaddedones dot com 
forgot to include the config bits for the system...

System => Linux pict2.pictopia.com 2.6.6-1.435.2.3smp #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 08:51:38 EDT 2004 x86_64
Build Date => Jul  1 2004 15:03:35
Configure Command =>  './configure' '--enable-mbstring=all' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calender' '--enable-mailparse' '--enable-shmop' '--enable-shared' '--enable-sysvsem' '--with-gettext=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-mysql=/export/home/imgdb/mysql' '--with-mysql-sock=/export/home/imgdb/mysql/locks/mysql.sock' '--with-curl=/export/home/imgdb/' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-openssl=/export/home/imgdb' '--enable-mbregex' '--enable-session' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-tokenizer' '--enable-wddx' '--with-xml' '--enable-trans-id' '--enable-track-vars' '--with-imap=/export/home/imgdb/imap-2004' '--with-imap-ssl=/export/home/imgdb/imap-2004' '--with-bz2' '--with-mcrypt=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-crypt' '--with-iconv=/export/home/imgdb' '--enable-cgi' '--enable-cli' '--with-mhash=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-tiff-dir=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-zlib=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-ttf' '--with-iconv-dir=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-freetype' '--with-freetype-dir=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-pear' '--with-mod_charset' '--with-apxs2=/export/home/imgdb/apache2.0.50/bin/apxs' '--with-gd' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-dom=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-dom-xslt=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-jpeg-dir=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-png-dir=/export/home/imgdb' '--with-dom-exslt=/export/home/imgdb' '--enable-force-cgi-redirect' '--enable-discard-path' '--enable-fastcgi' '--enable-rule=EAPI' '--enable-pcntl' '--enable-inline-optimizations' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/export/home/imgdb/conf/php' '--prefix=/export/home/imgdb'


--relvevant DOM things
domxml

DOM/XML => enabled
DOM/XML API Version => 20020815
libxml Version => 20609
HTML Support => enabled
XPath Support => enabled
XPointer Support => enabled
DOM/XSLT => enabled
libxslt Version => 1.1.6
libxslt compiled against libxml Version => 2.6.8
DOM/EXSLT => enabled
libexslt Version => 1.1.6

---this also happens on a php 4.3.4 system (OS X) with these domxmls bits

domxml

DOM/XML => enabled
DOM/XML API Version => 20020815
libxml Version => 20603
HTML Support => enabled
XPath Support => enabled
XPointer Support => enabled
DOM/XSLT => enabled
libxslt Version => 1.1.1
libxslt compiled against libxml Version => 2.6.3
DOM/EXSLT => enabled
libexslt Version => 1.1.1
 [2004-07-30 09:09 UTC] chregu@php.net 
use $dd->free() instead of unset($dd).
 [2004-07-30 17:41 UTC] bo at theaddedones dot com 
hmm, i'm not sure this is a 'bogus' bug, there is no documentation on this little 'free' function (although is certainly works)...so perhaps the 'bug' is more of a documentation thing (i.e. i did not know the 'free' function exsisted)
 
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