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Bug #40172 date() function memory leak
Submitted: 2007-01-19 16:52 UTC Modified: 2007-12-16 01:00 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:3.8 ± 0.7
Reproduced:6 of 6 (100.0%)
Same Version:2 (33.3%)
Same OS:3 (50.0%)
From: diogo86 at gmail dot com Assigned: derick (profile)
Status: No Feedback Package: Performance problem
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: Debian
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2007-01-19 16:52 UTC] diogo86 at gmail dot com 
Description:
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The date() function keep consuming memory each time it's called even if it's not assigned to any variable.

Reproduce code:
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<?php
for($i=0; $i<10000; $i++)
   date('d/m/Y H:i:s');

echo memory_get_usage();
?>

Expected result:
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Something about 46436 bytes of memory usage just like when I call this statement inside that loop:

$str = strtoupper($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

Actual result:
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5485532 bytes of memory usage.


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 [2007-01-19 17:03 UTC] tony2001@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5.2-win32-latest.zip

Cannot reproduce.
 [2007-01-27 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2007-09-25 18:34 UTC] travis at pause dot ca 
I'm experiencing the same issue: date() increases memory usage (for us) by about 17-20kb each time it's called. We're running Redhat Enterprise on our server with PHP 5.2.4. We've also experienced the problem on Windows XP with PHP 5.2.3.

Interestingly gmdate() is not affected by the issue, leading me to think it was a problem related somehow to the timezone file.

After a little investigation in that direction we found a fix. Simply specify date.timezone in your php.ini file and no more memory leak for date(). 

eg:
date.timezone = America/Toronto

So this bug can be replicated, it does exist (at least in the versions mentioned above), but there is a workaround until the leak is fixed (if it hasn't been in CVS already).

Cheers!
 [2007-10-09 16:43 UTC] derick@php.net 
I'll investigate - it might just be caching though.
 [2007-12-08 11:49 UTC] derick@php.net 
I still can't reproduce this, not even with an empty php.ini file, on any PHP version between 5.2.1 and 5.3.0-dev.
 [2007-12-16 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2008-04-02 22:14 UTC] jon at fantasybookinc dot com 
Running php 5.2 on a debian box, experiencing same issue with date() memory leakage.
 [2008-12-29 11:31 UTC] dominique dot fournier at grenoble dot cnrs dot fr 
Debian Box Etch with PHP 5.2 continues with this problem (with an empty or complete php.ini file). 
With ini_set ("date.timezone", "America/Toronto"); in php code, the problem is solved.
Debian version :
php5-common    5.2.0-8+etch13
 [2009-03-26 13:40 UTC] james dot haight at gmail dot com 
Confirming that this issue exists in 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.x86_64 as 
well, version that comes with recent Fedora 64bit. The above 
workaround works there as well,
 
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