Memory exhausted error in admin panel after upgrade to 2.8

Thanks Michael,

I tried all, except number 4…

Who still face the problem, see this page..
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/194370?replies=18

For me the problem was causing from “ToDo mini form plugin”, after deactivated it every thing be fine.

Thanks too MichaelH for help.

I tried all of the above solutions, but my error remains, unfortunately..

Here’s my error, maybe it gives someone an idea of how fixing it ??

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in (…)wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 4128

Is there another way to fix this? Or is it better for me to roll back to my ‘old’ version of wordpress (2.7.1)? The webhost won’t cooperate, and I can’t reach my php.ini because of them ??

It was the plug-in “Contact7” which do this error in my WordPress Dashboard. Then I stop this plug in and the Dashboad works correctly . but i have now a new error message :

Fatal error: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /mnt/110/sdb/1/d/jef/wordpress/wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 801
in the “WordPress Development Blog”

Same stuff here with other plugins, but increasing the memory in .htaccess solved the problem for me.

I had the same problem and I solved it by method 2 (2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M). Thanks MichaelH!

I had to deactivate Nextgen Gallery plugin. The other methods didn’t work for me. My php.ini, which I can’t reach, has a limit of 32 M. I think, it can’t be overridden?

It seems that version 2.8 is more memory-hungry than previous versions.

The problem seems to disappear if you disable more and more plugins.

The memory exhausted error pops up in other installations of mine, never saw this problem before the upgrade.

I suggest checking closely memory consumption on next releases, and putting a limit on it. Not all hosting environments allow users to rise memory limits.

Cheers

Hi!
Have the some problem in Admin Panel, Uploading photos, update plugins etc.
My host dont upgrade memory limit, so what to do?
Damn.
Cheers from Portugal

deactivating some of my plugins also fixed the problem. no biggie, i wasn’t really using those ones anyway.

Could be this:
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/10147

If you are willing you can download the 2.8.1 beta that has that fix at:
https://www.ads-software.com/nightly-builds/wordpress-2.8-latest.zip

I had this problem and, through my inept tinkering, ended up actually completely destroying both of my new 2.8 blogs. Turned out it was a php memory limit set by the service provider and NOT customizable by me. The 8 MB limit my provider gives is not enough to run WP 2.8.

I was running only ONE plug-in (Akismet), and I had small databases (less than 2 MB each) but I still couldn’t run WP 2.8 on account.

I think this is a major bug that the WP development community needs to fix. I want to use WP… it is clearly the best… but at present I just can’t do it. Also, after porting over to my self-installed WP blog, I deleted my old blogger blog, and after this fiasco, all that I have left is the MySQL database. My old blog is now totally off line.

I’m feeling kinda bitter about this issue.

all that I have left is the MySQL database

mcbalz
Backup that database, and consider moving your domain to a new host. If a new host is not an option, then restore your 2.7.1 database and 2.7.1 files.

Michael, how can I get the database information into a WP installation?

Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup