import-mt – Fatal error: Allowed memory size

  • First, my apologies if I’m posting this wrong, it’s my first time. ??
    I’m trying to import a blog to WP and here’s the error I get:
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 131072 bytes) in /path-to/wordpress/wp-admin/import-mt.php on line 66
    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 21 bytes) in Unknown on line 0
    The import file is huge – 2.90mb – because the site is huge and stuffed with idiotic pictures. ?? Here is the site I’m trying to import. I already imported one of my sub-blogs into my WP installation and it went fine, but it only had 5 entries and like 30 comments.
    Any ideas on what to do with this? I’d be happy to divide the thing up into smaller chunks if that would help any.

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  • Thread Starter iki

    (@iki)

    Wonderful!
    Had to chop it up a bit further because anything over 1mg for the import file made it crap out again. This is actually a good thing though – as most of the 1500 entries are stupid, I think I’ll just take out a “best of” segment and then trash the rest.
    Thanks much for the assistance, I appreciate it.

    < 800 kb per import file seems to work fine (I tried this on two different servers in two different places) , in case someone stumbles across this post in the future.

    I had the same problem in FreeBSD though not in OS X. What I did was adjust the memory size in php.ini. What’s odd (to me, anyway) is that the values are the same but FreeBSD would balk at the import of a 3.3 Mb file.
    I also had to tweak the max_execution_time to 90 seconds to get around a timeout. Here’s the section to look for in your php.ini.

    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
    ; Resource Limits ;
    ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
    max_execution_time = 30 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
    max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
    memory_limit = 8M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

    Other than that, it all went swimmingly: almost 2000 entries slurped in no time flat, it seemed.

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