Fatal Error: Out of Memory messages

Can you clarify? What do you mean by badly configured PHP? Are you referring to the WordPress install, the PHP server itself, or something else?

PHP server.

THIS WORKS FOR ME:
THIS TO BE ENTERED IN THE WP-CONFIG FILE WHICH IS IN THE ROOT OF THE WORDPRESS SETUP:

ENTER AFTER:
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__).’/’);

THE FOLLOWING:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

I ALSO CREATED A PHP.INI WHICH I UPLOADED TO THE PLUGIN FOLDER IN WP-CONTENT:

memory_limit = 128M; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)
max_execution_time = 45;
upload_max_filesize = 10M;
post_max_size = 20M;

This is the PHP configuration for my server:

Language Options asp_tags Off
File Uploads file_uploads On
Resource Limits max_execution_time 30
Resource Limits max_input_time 60
Resource Limits memory_limit 32M
Data Handling register_globals Off
Language Options safe_mode Off
File Uploads upload_max_filesize 2M

Does anyone see any potential areas for conflict here? I thought that 32M should be plenty for the memory limit, but as noted, it has been addressed locally by a php.ini file, anyway. Is there something “wrong” with one of the other settings?

(I am trying Charles’ suggestion, as well.)

Is there any possibility that a large database could be causing the problem? This blog is 5+ years old, and has a pretty good-size DB. (I don’t really understand PHP and SQL and how all of this works together, so that might be a totally stupid question.)

Charles’ fix didn’t work, either.

Hello, I’ve been having the same problem. I found this post and used the script to verify what wordpress was telling me – that I was out of memory (for me at 40MB).

I verfied that my global php.ini was really set at 200M with this little script:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

It was so, it seems something was fishy with my host. I then informed my host and linked them to the memory test script (from the above link) and they then admitted that I was on an older server with limited memory and I was only getting 60MB and 20MB of that was being used by the PHP interpreter itself, leaving me with only 40MB. They then ‘offered’ to move me to a new server for free.

Long story short, hosts will only give you what they think you need in order to save money. If you put the evidence in their face that they are scrimping, they’ll usually back down to keep you as a customer.

Hi A2JC4life,

So were you able to resolve this issue? How did you finally address it?

Problem Solved!!!!!!

I tried Charles’ fix, it did it!!!! You are a life-saver!! Been messing around with codes for 2 days already (without really understanding PHP, etc) trying all these suggestions – thank God this one went through!!!

Thanks again, Charles ??

Nope; haven’t fixed the problem. The consensus seems to be that, yes, WP really is demanding an insane amount of memory and I should just randomly keep increasing my server’s memory allowance because nobody cares to identify why WP would be drawing so much memory.

Hello,

I know what will fix this error.

“W3 Total Cache” Plugin

Browser Cache > check to enable

Enable HTTP compression and add headers to reduce server load and decrease file load time.

None of these options has worked for me. I’m on 1and1 for hosting.

I tried the W3 Total Cache plugin with the options you mentioned and that hasn’t worked either.

Tried all of these as well and nothing worked.
Anybody solve this yet?

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