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  <refentry id="function.apache-child-terminate">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>apache_child_terminate</refname>
    <refpurpose>Terminate apache process after this request</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>bool</type><methodname>apache_child_terminate</methodname>
      <void/>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>apache_child_terminate</function> will register the
     Apache process executing the current PHP request for termination
     once execution of PHP code it is completed. It may be used to
     terminate a process after a script with high memory consumption has
     been run as memory will usually only be freed internally but not
     given back to the operating system. 
    </para>
    <note>
     <simpara>
      The availability of this feature is controlled by the &php.ini; directive
      <option>apache.child_terminate</option>, which is set to <literal>off</literal>
      by default.
     </simpara>
     <simpara>
      This feature is also not available on multithreaded versions of apache 
      like the win32 version.
     </simpara>
    </note>
    <para>
     See also <function>exit</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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