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I been running into PHP allowed memory exhausted fatal error lately running contact_create() call inside a for loop.


I been monitoring the memory usage of my script memory_get_usage()

and see that the biggest memory usage jump is between before the
$contact =&contact_create($param)

and after the call.


As matter of fact, the memory usage keep going up after each call and it seems they are not freed therefore resulting in the memory exhaustion error.

I played around with turning dupe_check off in the $param of the API call and the result was

with 'dupe_check' => TRUE, each API call increased my memory usage by average .019 MB per call
with 'dupe_check' => FALSE, memory usage increases by .010 MB per call

But I still don't understand why the API call keeps allocating memory and not freeing them, since it only returns the contact_id of the created contacts.

I've tried to kill all my variables when they are out of scope, etc with not much success.



Any help would be appreciated!

Can we call the free in the contact_create function (or in all the _create function really) or that's too risky and will get side effects ?

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Reading this and your blog - does it follow that wherever a function like this appears:

        $dao =& CRM_Core_DAO::executeQuery( $query, $params );

        while ( $dao->fetch() ) {
            $viewNote[$dao->id] = $dao->note;
        }
        return $viewNote;
It should be replaced by



        $dao =& CRM_Core_DAO::executeQuery( $query, $params );

        while ( $dao->fetch() ) {
            $viewNote[$dao->id] = $dao->note;
        }
        $dao->free();
        return $viewNote;