NYCPHP Meetup

[Rahmin Pavlovic]

Heya,

So, I have this script that does the following:

1.  Requests jpeg from origin CDN via cURL
2.  If file doesnt exist... log error, continue.
3.  Write jpeg to temp file
4.  Resize original image (GD lib) to temp file. FTP to directory on  
new CDN.  Create directory structure if not present.  Repeat seven  
times per image.

Not sure how many, but we're talking about 10k; maybe 15k images.

The script works, but problem we're running into is the memory limit.   
We got about 31% through the images, and hit:

PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 524288000 bytes exhausted  
(tried to allocate 41760 bytes) in /web/lib/php/populate_images.php on  
line 135

Maybe it's me, but if we have to allot more than 500 MB of memory,  
something is wrong.

Any ideas?  Maybe sleep the script after each image?

We're running the script in shell.