Fatal error: Allowed memory size….

Hi,

Disabling all plugins does not help.

I have also found an illogical pattern:

Uploading a file of size x is successful while the next file of smaller size y will fail. This in same post. So a larger sized file will succeed while a smaller will fail… Decreasing the file even more will in fact display an even larger byte size allocation error.

My ISP does not allow larger than 25 MB, so that that – none of the options suggested here in regards to increased memory allocaiotn pool will work for the likes of me.

This does indeed seem to be a problem in WP 2.8.4. Seems memory allocation requirement is excessive. How to decrease the excessive memory usage?

How do we resolve this?

Morten

i had this error and its caused by having too many plug-ins loaded in at once.
If you disable the ones you actually don’t need , the error goes.

i had this error and its caused by having too many plug-ins loaded in at once.
If you disable the ones you actually don’t need , the error goes.

that is most certainly usually true
however, sometimes php really does run out of memory

Husar’s comment did it for me on two blogs. Thanks! Upgraded to 2.8.5

Their comment:

I just added..

ini_set(“memory_limit”,”64M”);

… to the top of my wp-config and no issues.

Cheers.

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Sorry forgot to add a question mark to that

hi everybody!

i get the same allocation problem when trying to upload images.

That’s my error message

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in /home/.sites/897/site245/web/blog/wp-includes/media.php on line 345

what i did:

• define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');— didn’t work.
• “deactivate all plug-ins” — i am only using one and that wasn’t the problem.

on closer inspection on said line in said php-file there is the following expression
$newimage = imagecreatetruecolor( $dst_w, $dst_h);

Interestingly I only get the error message if an image exceeds certain dimensions. Usually the images i try to upload are 1280*853; if i try uploading a little smaller images it works no problemo; like 1280*734.

can any of you folks help me out on this? help would be much appreciated!

Hey gas01ine and all the others

I had the same problem. I tried to increase the Memory in the wpconfig.php and the php.ini. Both did’t solve the problem.

But then i had a look in the Settings (In the left column of the adminarea.) I have the german version so it is “Einstellungen -> Mediathek” i don’t know what it’s in english. Maybe Settings -> Media just to have a guess…

There you can adjust the max width and height of your images.

Well it’s working now, although not for all images. I set the max height and width to 4000 pixels each, but still encountered the problem with an image of approx. 3400 x 2000 pixels. An image of 3000×2000 worked fine. Well maybe it helps.

Hey,

I am sorry to chime in here, but I have the same problem, but went through the first 10 topics within the forums and tried various things.

I tried to:

– disable all plugins
– disable all widgets
– upgrade to 2.8.6, downgrade to 2.7.
– cleaned out some unnecessary entries from very old plugins in the database I don’t need anymore
– the website already needs around 128MB and isn’t working even on 96MB or lower.
– I also tried to enter this command of 64MB in the config which was recommended througout the forum

I don’t know what to do really. Anyway has some help?
I mean the website runs stable at 128MB, but I just ask myself how long?
It outmaxed 64MB, then 96MB, how long will it work at 128MB?

This tells me that something goes up in an endless string somehow.
However I am no coder etc. but I have logic understand that it has to be something like it.

Even though it stays stable at 128MB, it is wayyyy to much for a simply wordpress website and a few tiny not even hardcore plugins ??

Thanks so much for any help in advance!!

Cheers,

Alex

Is there any way to fix this error without deactivating the plugins?

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in /home/artygirl/public_html/wp-includes/media.php on line 345

I’ve found a naughty solution. I renamed the plugins folder which luckily doesn’t delete my blogs widget settings etc, uploaded the files then renamed the plugins folder back. I wouldn’t recomend doing this though if you have a client admin system. I plan to test flickr as an alternative!

There something wrong with plugin compatibility in the recent wordpress

Note: I was also able to upgrade wordpress mu doing this! If you have customers like me its a good idea to do to ugrade at 3 in the morning as its least likely you’ll find them looking at your site at that time!