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I think this would apply to early Ruby On Rails. PHP libs and interpreter are actually fairly good.

Can you have a long-running process on PHP these days? I thought it still wasn't an option.

yeah. I know of a startup doing significant data analysis with long-running (months without restarting) php processes.

I've been running long running process's with PHP for well over 8 years now.

How did you deal with the resource leaks before PHP 5.3, which was released in 2009?

I steered clear of circular references.