Log PHP memory usage per-request

You can easily log how much memory each request for a PHP page takes by modifying the LogFormat:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b %{mod_php_memory_usage}n \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined-php

Note the latter definition, which includes %{mod_php_memory_usage}n — this will print out the amount of memory, in bytes, required to execute the script as requested. Big help in finding memory leaks. To use, just change the log definition to the newly-created "combined-php" format:

CustomLog logs/fever-access_log combined-php

Do note that this may (probably will) break Apache log parsers that are expecting the standard combined format. If using for troubleshooting, I recommend logging to an alternate location so as to not screw up log statistics.

Credit to Brad Ison for this find

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