Fatal error: Out of memory

What is the actual, complete error?

it depends,
I have disabled all plugins now which has at least let me get into the admin area.

if i try to reinstall version 3.4.2 i get this with in wordpress

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 9437184) (tried to allocate 995832 bytes) in /home/lambrett/public_html/wp-admin/includes/update.php on line 288

on the admin home page i have this all the time:

Incoming Links

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 9961472) (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/lambrett/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 13315

Plugins

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 9961472) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/lambrett/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 12791

WordPress Development Blog

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 9961472) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/lambrett/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 12791

if i try to install a few plugins i get this:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 10223616) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/lambrett/public_html/wp-content/plugins/phpZon/amazon.php on line 23

i can get phpzon to activate if i deactivate every other plugin but then when i try to activate the other plugins again 1 or 2 will give another error.

its not the plugins pulling all the memory and in any case the amount they are trying to allocate is much much less than the server limit and the WP max memory limit which is set as in my post above.

All of those are right at 10MB. What is the actual RAM (or allocated RAM) on the server? 10MB available is pretty low.

As said above php is set to 512MB
server has 786MB guaranteed RAM
and 1.5GB Burst RAM

the server shows no sign of getting anywhere near 768MB at any time which is why the host has referred me here, its wordpress not the server!

As said above php is set to 512MB…

Yes, but you can set it to anything you want and it doesn’t matter if the memory isn’t there.

the server shows no sign of getting anywhere near 768MB at any time which is why the host has referred me here, its wordpress not the server!

It seems to me like the server has to be getting very near that 768MB, or even the 1.5GB. PHP is using, in your last example, 10.223616MB and is asking for .491520MB more, so PHP, and hence WordPress, is asking for less than 12MB total, which is 1/3rd WordPress’ default memory limit.

Based on those numbers it would take about 65.5 concurrent (down to half a second or so) connections to get to the 786MB or 128 concurrent connections to hit the burst limit. That is a tremendous amount of traffic. Do you get bursts of that much traffic (among all the sites on that server)?

Have you tried a caching plugin?

The server stats show that memory isnt getting near 786 at any time.

Mem: 1572864 606104 966760 0 0 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 606104 966760
Swap: 0 0 0
Total: 1572864 606104 966760

I have a heavily moded phpbb3 forum on the same server that gets a lot of traffic (40k page views by 2k visitors a day average) compared to the wordpress sites which never has any memory issues.

wordpress only started doing this after php on my server was updated to 5.3.17 from 5.2.XX. all my other non wordpress sites run a lot faster after the update and have NO memory issues!
surely if it was a server side problem the other php sites would be showing some problems too?

This is clearly a PHP configuration issue. Check memory_limit in your php.ini – I bet it is set to 10M ??

@halty, in the initial post edengp250 says that he or she “increased memory limit in php.ini to 512mb.”

@edengp250, that looks like the output from free. That is going to be a snapshot of memory usage on a split-second scale. It isn’t really an average, or a statistic. Are you running it with the -m option to output in megabytes?

s_ha_dum:
Thank you, I have missed that part.

edengp250:
I would really want to see the output of phpinfo(). It is quite possible that there is another php.ini file being loaded and not the one that is being changed. I’ve also seen imagick installations breaking memory_limit, but it was a bit different in my case. Anyway, phpinfo() should reveal the issue.

I was told by my host that they had looked for another php.ini file and didnt find any.

https://lambretta-parts-for-sale.com/phpinfo.php

Could it be eAccelerator?

Is this phpinfo.php located in the root of your “broken” wordpress? If not, can you please move it over there?

I doubt it is eAccelerator, but you can always try disabling it.

I guess it could be eAccelerator. I’ve only browsed the docs briefly but it looks that would increase memory usage. It saves compiled code in memory and cuts out some overhead. It should be fine if you have the memory.

PHP’s memory is 512MB, which probably isn’t bad. What is allocated to MySQL (I am assuming the database is on the same server)?

yes its in the root

Then I would try disabling all PHP extensions. Look in your php.ini for lines like:

extension=extension_name.so
and comment them out.

Then restart Apache.

If this does not help, then I would update all system libs and recompile PHP from scratch.

If you do get a fix for this, please reply. I have been having the same issue for a week on all of my wp sites. I am using cpanel and have tried installing wp both manually and with the one-click cpanel install. I get the fatal error on every one. I just moved to cpanel a couple of weeks ago and am planning to transfer sites over to new IPs, so these are all fresh installs–meaning, as of yet, there are no plugins to disable and nothing customized on any of these sites.

Thanks!