Memory Leak, or Coding problem ?

[eluser]Matthew Lanham[/eluser]
Well it shouldn't be using that much ram, however simpleXML is pretty memory intense, and its fairly slow aswell, you might want to look into a SAX parser, i had one kicking around i found that we use on a huge project over 3.4 million records split into multiple xml files of 50,000 and the SAX parser is a HUGE amount faster, and doesnt need as much ram, as it only loads in blocks, where as simpleXML loads the whole file into memory....

Just found the link:
http://code.google.com/p/pushxml/

Uses a SAX parser to pass back an object just like using simpleXML but better, give it a whirl and let me know if this helps.