Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432

  • I see that this error message is the subject of many many posts.
    However. It is an issue for me with a new install on a new host that has a memory allocation of 384M. I have edited wp-settings.php a number of times to add
    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘XXXM’);
    The first time, I put 64M in and re-loaded the error page. The effect was that WP appeared to continue on from where it broke, but it broke again a few seconds later processing a different file size it tried to allocate.

    The full error message is Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/primaryf/public_html/wp-admin/includes/menu.php on line 174
    and I can no longer start wp-admin – the same error message persists.

    At the time of the break, I had installed WP and was uploading 3 images. The second of the 3 produced an error message and the third completed successfully. I tried to upload the 2nd image again, same effect. All 3 images uploaded but it appears that the 2nd does not have thumbnails.

    I can access the front end but not the wp-admin back end.

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  • Thread Starter wjohnallen

    (@wjohnallen)

    Just had a response back from my hosting provider. They have “permanently increased the memory allocation” but the problem persists.

    Can you post your site URL?

    Thread Starter wjohnallen

    (@wjohnallen)

    Hi and thanks for coming back.
    The site’s front end works fine well but crashes when loading wp-admin, so there is nothing to see really. The host version info is:
    Apache version 2.2.23
    PHP version 5.3.17
    MySQL version 5.1.65-cll

    I have just deleted the installed version of WP and will now re-install it and go thru the process again.

    Thread Starter wjohnallen

    (@wjohnallen)

    I have re-installed WP and commenced uploading the images again, this time each one individually. The admin panel crashed again on the same image as previously.

    I had no reason to believe the image is corrupted in some way. It is 523KB and available at https://ruralconnect.org.nz/rural_technologyold.jpg. However, I have now uploaded that file 3 times (the last time at a lower resolution) and the same problem occurs. I will use a different image.

    But the real problem seems to be that WP does not recover from this error, whatever is causing it. This tiff file shows the error is “still crunching”. https://ruralconnect.org.nz/WP%20media%20upload%20error%20message.tiff. Eventually, the entire admin function fails and the only solution seems to be to re-install WP.

    Thread Starter wjohnallen

    (@wjohnallen)

    Aggghhh….
    Frustration. I installed Pagelines without first uploading my images and the same problem occurred…..

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