Support: Out of memory error

Hey Linda,

hmm. 32M should be more than enough

memory_limit = 24M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)
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just double check it is the memory_limit setting in the .ini

anyone else got this issue?

Cheers

Justin

Checking the error log I see the following:

[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Guessed: 'http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./templates/invoices/default/style.css'
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Fetching: http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./templates/invoices/default/style.css
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Status code:200
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Guessed: 'http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./templates/invoices/logos/_default_blank_logo.png'
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Fetching: http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./templates/invoices/logos/_default_blank_logo.png
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:36] Status code:200
[05-Feb-2008 08:17:37] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24 bytes) in /home/mysite/public_html/simpleinvoices/include/pdf/list-style.image.php on line 13

and

[04-Feb-2008 12:42:59] Guessed: 'http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./images/logo/_default_blank_logo.png'
[04-Feb-2008 12:42:59] Fetching: http://www.mysite.com/simpleinvoices/./images/logo/_default_blank_logo.png
[04-Feb-2008 12:42:59] Status code:200
[04-Feb-2008 12:43:00] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77 bytes) in /home/mysite/public_html/simpleinvoices/pdf/css.border.inc.php on line 200

When I look at my folders - there is no invoices folder

Hey Linda,

probably best to ask Bluehost.com

they may have some special php.ini setup or something

let us know how you go

Cheers

Justin

I increased the memory limit by adding an edited php.ini file to the invoices directory, and phpinfo reveals that the memory is indeed 64M, but I still get the same error.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 77 bytes)

also may want to check all the memory values in http://yourinstall.com/simpleinvoices/phpinfo.php to ensure there all OK

I have increased it to 64M. I confirmed that with phpinfo from invoices. I still get the same error (reporting the same problem with 33554432 bytes exhausted) Since you said that 32M should be more than enough, I wonder what the problem would be.

if all else fails ask your host - maybe there are doing some funky thing that overrides your mods to php.ini

I asked them, and am waiting for an answer. Do you have any possible idea what the problem could be related to? This trouble appeared all of a sudden. It may be that they upgraded php or changed some settings...

was pdf working before?

Yes, perfectly fine.

I got it working.

My hosting provider mentioned that a php.ini must be present in every subdirectory that requires setting different than the "master" (global) settings. The default memory setting is 32M. I upped the memory to 64M in the /include/pdf subfolder and I got it to work.

Interestingly, the previous settings for php were 24M and everything worked fine then. Perhaps there have been point releases of PHP5 which make some things consume more ram(?)

I experimented and found that I could not generate a pdf with anything less than 35 Megs of ram allocated in the /include/pdf subfolder. All other folders have a limit of 32M.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can tell you about this issue.

Thanks!

Andrew

you can override the default php.ini setting using .htaccess

I'm having the same problem and would like a little more info on how to accomplish this in a more explicit information. I don't know really anything useful about PHP but I can follow the directions of those that do.

Hey folks

I also got the same error. For me the solution was to set the memory limit to 256!! I'm using XAMPP with php 5.2.5

Thanks Andrew, adding a php.ini file into my include/pdf/ folder did the trick for generating pdf files. Woohoo!

Happy again :)
Linda