Overnight, WP started using too much memory

  • I had a working installation. All of my plugins worked fine.

    I went to sleep, and when I got up the next morning, trying to reload the index page started giving me errors like this: ‘Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes)’

    I couldn’t access the admin panel at all, as that was all it would tell me, trying to get to any of those pages. I FTP’d in and trashed all my plugins, and could finally load the page and the admin pages. I have put some of my plugins back, but two of them are completely screwed up, now.

    – Social Networks Auto Poster won’t activate, because it uses too much memory during activation.
    – Shortcode UI activates, but immediately causes all of the admin pages to error out, instead of loading. ALL OF THEM.

    Even with those plugins removed (not just deactivated), the dashboard throws memory errors:
    – Incoming links: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /f5/penbrydd/public/wp-includes/SimplePie/IRI.php on line 1230

    – WordPress Blog: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /f5/penbrydd/public/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 11

    I changed nothing (no theme updates, no plugin updates, no core updates, no new posts) between the last time it worked and when it started doing this, so I’m wondering if anyone’s got any suggestions about what might have gone wrong, here.

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  • Can be something related to your server. Who hosts your site?
    Have you tried to increase your memory size?

    Thread Starter penbrydd

    (@penbrydd)

    I use NearlyFreeSpeech, and unfortunately, there’s no way to increase memory size, without paying three times as much for the site. And as it’s the same amount of memory I’ve been using with this site for the last few months, I don’t really see that being the problem. WP tends to fit in 32MB.

    I’ve followed their directions to set up WP in the least stupid way with their architecture (install from SVN, set permissions on files in the right way, that sort of thing). And, I checked: they’ve not altered the amount of memory available, in the last few days.

    Is this your site? penbrydd.groundline.net

    If so, you have other problems too. Better contact your hosting support.

    BTW, WordPress needs a good hosting service for proper functioning. If you are using a very cheap or free hosting, you will always have troubles with your site.

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