My Provider did not upgrade memory size

  • Resolved rainer23

    (@rainer23)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    After upgrading successfully to 2.8.4 and trying to activate the plugins, I got this reminder: “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16453000 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /wordpress/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php3176 on lin.”
    Thanks that I didn’t delete the old wp-admin and wp-includes but only renamed them. So I crawled back to my previous version and things work again.
    On the other hand, why do providers keep their server on such low memory?
    Is this acceptable?

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  • Try to increase the PHP memory using following ways (for Linux):

    [1] You can add following line in your .htaccess:

    php_value memory_limit 64M

    This will not work if suPHP is enabled on your server. If suPHP is enabled on your server then you will need to put php.ini in the root of your domain and modify the following line:

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

    [2] You can also raise PHP memory from wp-config.php file. Just add the following line after

    define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);

    If you are on Windows server, you may try to put custom php.ini in your root of your domain and change the value for memory_limit.

    If none the solutions work, you may find another hosting provider. Generally they set lower limit so that if there is bug in users’ PHP script, they can’t consume all server memory.

    Kailash

    Thread Starter rainer23

    (@rainer23)

    Thanks for answering! As you suspected already those changes don’t work unless you have access to the server configuration. To change the provider because I want to upgrade my blog? Could be an option for cnn.com or mtv.com. I’m not so important, but still thanks for your advice.
    When entering at google: Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted, one gets 500,000 results, means I’m not alone.

    Well, I didn’t force you to change your host but the problem was related to PHP memory. This is a very common problem so you may get more results in Google ??

    but you can download your .htaccess or wp-config.php and make the changes there?

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