> I have never had a memoryleakfrom mysql_real_escape_string(). *What
> version are you running?

5.2.5, but I'm not sure where to report this, mysql, php or pear :) I
managed to narrow it down to a simple repro, it only happens if I pass
a simplexml node to this function, which is actually an object. If I
cast it to string or something then it's working fine.