Memory error

  • Hi all,

    I have been getting an error message on my dashboard about class-simplepie.php. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1966080 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxx/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 5410

    I have got rid of it by deactivating all plugins.

    However I am unable to upgrade to 3.0.1 as even with plugins deactivated I then get the error message of
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2966269 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1408

    I have done some research but am not technical enough to follow it all. However as I understand it there is some memory problem.

    The fix I have found is to add define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); to the wp-config.php, but I have tried that and it’s had no effect.

    And all the stuff I have found in the research is about a year old, I can’t see anything newer than that, and nothing relating to version 3.

    Anybody got any ideas what I can do to fix this? Originally the site itself was down but since deactivating the plugins it’s up, but obviously with problems.

    Thanks
    Peter

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    increasing memory available for php.

    Thread Starter peter1

    (@peter1)

    Thanks for that.

    I’ve read that and added a line to wp-settings.php immediately after

    // Set initial default constants including WP_MEMORY_LIMIT, WP_DEBUG, WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CACHE.
    wp_initial_constants( );

    I’ve added

    define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

    This didn’t have any effect, so I changed the 64 to 96 as it suggested, no effect either.

    I may have put it in the wrong place though, I’m no expert at this stuff. Is this the right place?

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    that seems to be the right place.

    have you contacted your hosting provider?

    you may also try:

    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to narrow down and possibly fix the problem . If the problem goes away, activate them individually to find the culprit?

    If you don’t have access to your admin area, try deactivating them manually via FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    -switching to the default theme (Twenty Ten) for a moment by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes. The idea is to force WordPress to fall back to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific issue?

    If you don’t have access to your admin area, then access your server via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    Thread Starter peter1

    (@peter1)

    Thanks, I’ll contact the hosting provider.

    I can remove the error message by deactivating all plugins, but even with them all deactivated I still couldn’t upgrade, so there is still a problem even with plugins deactivated.

    Tried changing to twenty ten, still all the same problems.

    Thanks for the help

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I would suggest upgrading manually. Not every server is copacetic with upgrading the 3.x branches due to increased file size, among other things.

    Thread Starter peter1

    (@peter1)

    I might wait, as I still get the dashboard error about simple pie unless I deactivate all the plugins, so it looks like there’s still a memory issue regardless. I’ll see what the host says first.

    But if that is fixed and I still can’t upgrade I’ll give that a go, thanks for the suggestion. Always installed via fantastico and done auto upgrade, so that will be a first for me.

    Thread Starter peter1

    (@peter1)

    Contacted host, they say I can add

    memory_limit = 64M

    to the php.ini and that will fix it. It’s on 32 m at the moment.

    Tried that and it doesn’t work. Still getting

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1966080 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/bulnbulnps.vic.edu.au/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 5410

    It’s not plugin specific, as I can deactivate random plugins and at a certain point it goes away, independent of which ones.

    Hmm, no idea what to do now.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    What kind of PHP are they using? Not the version, but like suPHP, or php-cgi, or what have you?

    Thread Starter peter1

    (@peter1)

    They eventually worked it out for me. Somehow they upped the limit to 128m, everything works fine now.

    Don’t know why my efforts didn’t work, but it’s fixed at least, thanks for all the help all.
    Peter

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