Image uploading – image dimensions (pixels) to wide/high large

Hi there,

On one install of wordpress on one server I get

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 30932992) (tried to allocate 17280 bytes) in /homepages/8/d210500459/htdocs/wp-includes/media.php on line 254

On another I get a blank screen. When I try and upload this 200K image

At first I played around with the memory limit and was able to change my phpinfo file to higher limits but still got this issue.

I’ve seen it mentioned in a few other posts but can’t find a fix. It seems as though the actual image dimensions (its height / width) are causing it not the file size.

This makes sense as perhaps there is a server limit and the strain on the CPU is too much. – I don’t think though that changing the memory_limit detailed on all the other posts fixes this because they are more to do with file size.

There’s a page somewhere on 1&1 where it is hosted that says there is 8 seconds of CPU. I’ve emailed them and got a quick “upgrade your server for more money” response.

Apart from re-sizing the image first – are there any solutions to this?

Any help much appreciated as always