where are you storing the information that you are cleaning once it is
cleaned?

are you appending it to a variable in the script?

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 00:26, pgcd wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to write a script to do some basic XML validation - nothing
> fancy, basically I just close open tags and check the arguments.
> The script runs fine, except that, when I use it in a loop (I need to
> validate roughly 200.000 posts), it gets progressively slower - like, the
> first ten calls to the function need around 0.01 seconds, next ten take
> 0.03, then it's 0.1 and so on.
> I've tried disabling parts of the code, I've tried profiling with dbg, I've
> tried manually optimizing: nothing. I managed to reduce the slowdown a bit,
> but it's still there, and very evident (as soon as I reach around a hundred
> posts, a single function call takes as long as 10 seconds).
> 
> It may be interesting to note that I had to recode it from scratch: I wrote
> a class to do the same processing, and *that* ate memory like crazy, ending
> up with nearly 2 GB of used memory (according to XP taskman).
> 
> If anybody has come across a similar problem, I'd love to know what did they
> do to solve it, but a suggestion on how to pinpoint the cause of the
> slowdown would be great as well.
> 
> Uh, yes: I'm using PHP 4.2.2 and Apache 1.3.24 on an XP machine (but I've
> tried using PHP 4.3.0 and Apache 2, with the same results).
> 
> pgcd
> 
> 
> 


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