(PHP 7 >= 7.3.0, PHP 8)
gc_status — Gets information about the garbage collector
Gets information about the current state of the garbage collector.
This function has no parameters.
Returns an associative array with the following elements:
"runs"
"collected"
"threshold"
"roots"
Example #1 gc_status() Usage
<?php// create object tree that needs gc collection$a = new stdClass();$a->b = [];for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) { $b = new stdClass(); $b->a = $a; $a->b[] = $b;}unset($a);unset($b);gc_collect_cycles();var_dump(gc_status());
The above example will output something similar to:
array(4) { ["runs"]=> int(5) ["collected"]=> int(100002) ["threshold"]=> int(50001) ["roots"]=> int(0) }