Constant fatal errors and memory issues

  • I have the very latest Worpress installed on a shared hosting site that gives 128M of php memory and I’ve increased the limit accordingly in the phprc and wp-config files.

    I don’t know much about computer science or programming, so I am wondering:

    How large is 128M? Is it typical for a new site using wordpress, with very little traffic or users, to use this much? I read that 128 is “more than enough” for a small WordPress site. I do have over 20 plugins installed, but I went through each one one by one to test and most of them only add about 1M of ram. The highest ones add 7 and 10.

    Is this really a plugin/usage problem or is something else causing it? Is upgrading to a higher hosting package or VPS really the best solution?

    PS. I’ve also gone through almost all the plugins disabling and enabliging some, but I get “Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 76546048) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/…” messages all the time, with “…” being different each time.

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  • Hi guys,

    I had the same fatal memory error you do, i found a possible solution.

    As others have noted, removing plugins helps but doesn’t fix the problem. That’s because the problem is something else.

    In my case (and someone else I saw online) the problem was caused by an entry in the theme settings. One of the text entries was getting a whole bunch of //////’s added to the text entry every time the page was saved. When I got the memory error, the entry had gone from “This is where my studio is” to “This is//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// where my studio is” but with about a thousand slashes!

    I suggest that anyone having the memory problem look through their text entries in theme settings for a similar problem. Not sure what causes it but sure glad to know how to fix it.

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