[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] GD uses lots of memory for high resolutions

  • Hi,

    I’ve got a few pictures with relatively high resolutions of about 2500 x 2000. When I upload them through the GUI NGG can’t create thumbnails from them, I get the error “Memory Limit exceeded. Require: 38.14 MB”.

    When I resize the picture to 2000 x 1500 before uploading I get the error “Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 22282240) (tried to allocate 2000 bytes) in /home/www/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/gd.thumbnail.inc.php on line 183”

    Resolution 1500 x 1250: The same, only “allocate 6000 bytes”

    The resolution 1280 x 960 works fine.

    Is there a way around this problem other than increasing the memory limit? I thought 32 MB would be enough and actually thought NGG would take the work of manual resizing from my hands…

    btw: The actual filesize has no effect on the error messages.

    Furthermore, I set the NGG options to resize the images – do I have to start this manually or is there a way to get NGG to resize all uploaded images (which of course would first require the obove problem to be solved)?

    Here is my server config:

    Server- Einstellungen

    * Betriebssystem : Linux
    * Server : Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6
    * Speicherverbrauch : 14.4 MByte
    * MySQL Version : 5.0.45
    * SQL Modus : Nicht gesetzt
    * PHP Version : 5.2.6
    * PHP Safe Mode : Aus
    * PHP Allow URL fopen : An
    * PHP Memory Limit : 32M
    * PHP Max Upload Gr??e : 30M
    * PHP Max Post Gr??e : 30M
    * PHP Max Script Execute Time : 30s
    * PHP Exif Modul : Ja ( V1.4 )
    * PHP IPTC Modul : Ja
    * PHP XML Modul : Ja

Grafik Bibliothek

    * GD Version : bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
    * FreeType Support : Ja
    * FreeType Linkage : with freetype
    * T1Lib Support : Nein
    * GIF Read Support : Ja
    * GIF Create Support : Ja
    * JPG Support : Ja
    * PNG Support : Ja
    * WBMP Support : Ja
    * XPM Support : Ja
    * XBM Support : Ja
    * JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support : Nein

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  • Hello Janzomaster

    I had a similar problem when creating thumbnails. This solution worked for me:

    https://michaelvisser.com.au/blog/thumbnail-generation-php-memory-limit-nextgen-gallery/

    hth.

    John

    forgot to say the file you need to edit is gd.thumbnail.inc.php if you’re using ngg 1.02

    j

    Thread Starter Janzomaster

    (@janzomaster)

    Increasing the memory limit does solve the first error message but the others stay the same, even if I increase the memory limit to 256M.
    Is there any other thing I could do?

    I continue to have problems creating thumbnails for “some” of my larger landscape photos.

    I have increased my memory to 500MB throughout, and the change is visible in my overview page. I am running PHP5. Also visible in the overview. I have run the memory test.php and passed. Also, I have un-commented line #168 re: ‘memory_limit’ to 500.

    The error I repeatedly receive is
    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 41156608) (tried to allocate 11264 bytes) in /home/asdff/public_html/asdfasdf/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/lib/gd.thumbnail.inc.php on line 183

    line 183 is:
    $this->oldImage = ImageCreateFromJpeg($this->fileName);

    Here are my settings:
    Operating System : Linux
    Server : Apache/2.2.10 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.10 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
    Memory usage : 11.25 MByte
    MYSQL Version : 5.0.67-community
    SQL Mode : Not set
    PHP Version : 5.2.8
    PHP Safe Mode : Off
    PHP Allow URL fopen : On
    PHP Memory Limit : 500M
    PHP Max Upload Size : 500M
    PHP Max Post Size : 500M
    PHP Max Script Execute Time : 30s
    PHP Exif support : Yes ( V1.4 )
    PHP IPTC support : Yes
    PHP XML support : Yes

    GD Version : bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
    FreeType Support : Yes
    FreeType Linkage : with freetype
    T1Lib Support : No
    GIF Read Support : Yes
    GIF Create Support : Yes
    JPG Support : Yes
    PNG Support : Yes
    WBMP Support : Yes
    XPM Support : Yes
    XBM Support : Yes
    JIS-mapped Japanese Font Support : No

    ANY IDEAS? I am stuck.

    is there a way I can download a “ngg-db.php”
    with a smaller “PHP Memory limit” ?

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