[wp-hackers] Memory spike in comments_template()

[William Canino]

Hello,

One of my blog's most popular pages is hitting its shared host's
"memory limit", so this host is killing my scripts.  To diagnose it I
inserted several memory_get_usage calls in my theme.

This is how my single.php looks like:

<? remove_all_filters('comments_template'); ?>
<!-- BEFORE : <? echo memory_get_usage(); ?> -->	
<?php comments_template(); ?>
<!-- AFTER : <? echo memory_get_usage(); ?> -->	

This is how my comments.php looks like:

<!-- START: <? echo memory_get_usage(); ?> -->	
.... (everything else goes here) ...
<!-- END: <? echo memory_get_usage(); ?> -->	

This is my HTML output.

<!-- BEFORE: 25033360 -->	
<!-- START: 33953448 -->
... (comments go here) ...
<!-- END: 36172480 -->	
<!-- AFTER: 36113680 -->	

The memory usage jumped 8.5 megabytes between BEFORE and START.

Do I really have to move out some of the older comments of this blog
post?  Is there another solution?

(Sorry if this sounds too much like a support forum question.  The
wordpress.org forums are down.)

W