Out of memory errors in FileStorage

[staabm]

One of our users reported php out of memory errors in the FileStorage.

Is there any chance to e.g.

• reduce memory footprint
• use a memory efficient serilalizing strategy
• prevent this errors from happening
• would using a bzip stream-wrapper improve efficiency https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-get-wrappers.php ? ?

[itsgoingd]

Not in the short-term I'm afraid. I'm well aware this is currently a big weakness of Clockwork. Unfortunately the best we can do right now is to suggest collecting less data and collecting data only for relevant requests.

Long-term I will be exploring a complete re-work of the metadata format that would allow as to achieve dramatically lower memory usage all around. No time frame for that right now though.

[mahagr]

What I am doing is to add __debugInfo() methods to the objects to remove all unnessessary information from the debug output. This helps as there's support for this method. I think we added also some other methods which are looked at, but I cannot remember which they were.