<?php
printf("Initial: %fMB\n", memory_get_peak_usage() / 1048576);
$string = '';
do {
$string .= 'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry\'s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.';
} while (strlen($string) < 10485760);
printf("Loaded string: %fMB\n", memory_get_peak_usage() / 1048576);
$array = explode("Lorem", $string);
printf("Exploded string: %fMB\n", memory_get_peak_usage() / 1048576);
Initial: 0.406258MB
Loaded string: 10.375320MB
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 27271168) (tried to allocate 4194312 bytes) in /in/fUZ47 on line 13
mmap() failed: [12] Cannot allocate memory
mmap() failed: [12] Cannot allocate memory
Process exited with code 255.