Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted

First, try installing the Memory Bump plugin.

If that doesn’t work, here are four ways to increase PHP’s memory allocation:

1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M

3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
Increasing memory allocated to PHP
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

4. Talk to your host.

I’ve done the first three. Nothing.
Speaking to my host is useless.

I have done php.ini by creating the file.
I have also done .htaccess
I have also added the line to wp-config

Did nothing.

Also, right now what I have going in and out is
“Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute.”

Anything else I can do?

If speaking to your host is useless, which it should never be, you might want to consider the unlisted #5.

5. Switch to another hosting provider.

Well, what I mean is that I have complete access ti all things hosting. All control to CPanel, anything they can do, so can I.
What do I need to do, or better yet, what does the host need to do?

Alright, did everything one more time, still same errors and any time I run plugin updates I get the maintenance error which locks me out for a few minutes at a time.

Yeah i have tried the same steps as you and I get the errors all over my dashboard.
I am on 2.9.2

chrisebbeck, I was getting these in 2.9.2 and still get them after following three different posts, multiple steps, multiple times. I am considering reinstalling the entire blog. The issue with this as I see it is that I really don’t want to be doing this all of the time.

Right now the blog works, not properly but it works. And I just don’t want to have to reinstall and reconfigure everything every time something goes bad.

Well, what I mean is that I have complete access ti all things hosting. All control to CPanel, anything they can do, so can I.

That’s not true. cPanel is just an interface designed for you to have limited control over your small patch of hosting space. Your hosting provider can do much more. Ask them to bump PHP’s memory allocation.

Thanks for the tip, I will be doing so very soon. However if you’d refer to my other post here it’d be great.

After having a bunch of issues I could not resolve I decided to wipe the slate clean and reinstall everything. After doing so, I still don’t have access to permalinks, it’s just a blank gray screen even without any plugins running. The post may be better at explaining the issue and if there is anything you could help me out with, that would be absolutely great.

Thanks everyone.

Post link

Okay so as an update I wanted to let you guys know that when I loaded an old db backup using WP-DBManager

The errors came back.
The errors were not there when I reinstalled WP fresh. Once I reinstalled the old db file it all came back.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/westmins/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 4187

However, when I reinstalled a fresh copy of WP 3.0 I still could not access permalinks. You can see more about this in this post.

i am still having problems with this.
I have contacted my host and they told me to do the following:

“Please create php.ini file and then put memory_limit = whatever memory you want to set. Once it’s done upload it to the directory where you are running that php script.”

I don’t know what needs to be in the php.ini file or where to place it?

chrisebbeck, create a php.ini file and insert this line into it.

memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

However I want you to know that I did this and it made no difference for me. However we need to keep in mind that this may work for you because you likely have a different host from me.

Give it a try and also take a look at this link and pay attention to what MichaelH said towards the middle of the post. He gives you three options and you can try them until you find one that takes care of this for you.

You can also try using the Memory Bump Plugin as it is recommended by the WordPress community, it was created for this purpose, I believe it does what you’d be doing manually but give it a try if you want.

Good luck.

BTW, I am still having the same problem. When I reinstall a fresh copy of WP 3.0 all is good with the memory usage but as soon as I load a DB back up it all goes back to the error. So I know this isn’t an issue with the host.

Ok I fixed this and it was very simple.

I tried all of the following and none worked:
1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
If your line shows 32M try 64M:
memory_limit = 64M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64MB)

2. If you don’t have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 64M

3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
Increasing memory allocated to PHP
define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

4. Talk to your host.

I have no access to my php.ini file. So I created my own php.ini file with the following in it and added to my wp-admin folder.

<? phpinfo(); ?>
memory_limit = 128M

and it is all fixed!
So simple, I have been trying to work this out all week.

thank you chrisebbeck

<? phpinfo(); ?>
memory_limit = 128M