[ck2]

The good news about hhvm is that with the newest builds from the past few months you can finally run it longer than a week without memory leaks and crashing under high loads.

If you look at the changelog, you can see it really is a beta product that people use in production anyway

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/hhvm/master/NEWS

"Ditko" 26-Feb-2015 finally solved me having to restart it every several days

I'm very eager to compare PHP7 in production

[hootener]

This is what caused me to abandon HHVM for plain ol' PHP around a year ago. I was running it in Docker containers and the memory leaks would regularly crash my containers if left unattended for more than a couple of days.

It was quite frustrating because I noticed some definite performance gains (e.g., ~2x faster page loads, etc.), but ultimately opted for PHP's stability.

The benefit to running all this in Docker is that I can swap HHVM back in relatively easily (unless it's changed really dramatically over the past 10 months or so). Your comment has me tempted to give it another shot!

[ck2]

Update: we had an hhvm install today that crashed after 15 days or so.

Apparently this still happens but instead of several times per month, it is now a couple times per month.

Sigh, well PHP7 is right around the corner.