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Zend Studio Magento Building Workspace Error

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Posted by nick on January 30, 2012 at 5:15 pm

I encountered a very large project involving Magento and added it as a project to my zend studio. Zend studio would frequently hang with an error related to building workspace. As I suspected, the problem was related to running out of memory as this project is huge. I increased the memory available to Zend Studio with the below solution.

In the Zend Studio interface it is possible to monitor how much Java heap space is used by the application. To do so, enable the option Show heap status in the Zend Studio Preferences by going to Window | Preferences | General (in MacOS X go to Zend Studio | Preferences | General). The heap status now appears in the application’s status bar. If you see that you quickly run out of memory (for example during a project build) you should consider increasing the default Java heap size. This can be done in the file ZendStudio.ini located in the Zend Studio installation path. Search for the –Xms and –Xmx parameters:

Xms – The initial amount of memory to allocate for Java heap space.
Xmx – The maximal amount of memory that is allowed to be used for Java heap space.

These values can be increased, but be aware that you are limited by the physical RAM of the system. Even for very complicated projects 512M Xms and 1024M Xmx should be enough.

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Zend Studio php_pdo_mysql.dll error

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Posted by nick on June 29, 2010 at 10:53 am

I started using phpunit, which is built into Zend Studio 7.2. Everything works fine until it encountered a database query that used PDO. The test case will timeout and zend studio will give you the error “Test case was unexpectedly terminated”. It took a lot of digging to find the real error in the windows event viewer:

Faulting application name: php-cgi.exe, version: 5.2.10.10, time stamp: 0x4abb41d8
Faulting module name: php_pdo_mysql.dll, version: 5.2.10.10, time stamp: 0x4ab23077
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0×00002580
Faulting process id: 0×458
Faulting application start time: 0x01cb16fb91818916
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Zend Studio – 7.1.0\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.3.7.v20091116\resources\php5\php-cgi.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\Zend Studio – 7.1.0\plugins\org.zend.php.debug.debugger.win32.x86_5.3.7.v20091116\resources\php5\ext\php_pdo_mysql.dll
Report Id: d31816ab-82ee-11df-99ae-00241dd93279

The solution? While I had Zend Server installed and using PHP 5.3, Zend Studio’s internal version was using PHP 5.2.xxx. I’m pretty certain Doctrine, which uses PDO, requires PHP 5.3. I changed Zend Studio to PHP 5.3 and it worked. In Zend Studio, go to Window->preferences->php->debug and ensure the “PHP executable” is set to PHP 5.3. FYI – My “server” on this screen is set to “Local Zend Server”. Hope this helps!

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