5 The **"Resource and Persistent Handle Factory"** extension provides facilities to manage those in a convenient manner.
7 > **Note:** This extension mostly only provides infrastructure for other extensions.
11 This extension is hosted at [PECL](http://pecl.php.net) and can be installed with [PEAR](http://pear.php.net)'s pecl command:
17 * raphf.persistent_handle.limit = -1
18 The per process/thread persistent handle limit.