[FX.php List] Memory Error

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Are you running Apache?

Here is the parameter you are looking for.

$ cat /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini |grep memory_limit
memory_limit = 8M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (8MB)

ggt

2009/12/10 Karstyn McCoy <kmccoy at supportgroup.com>:
> Thought I would get back and say what the problem turned out to be.
>
> The web page was a long registration form that updated a bunch of FM
> portals - which ended up being the issue. The errors were sporadic in
> that if one portal and/or a document upload section were commented out
> then the page worked fine. It didn't seem to matter what portal
> section was commented out, just that one or more were. The errors
> could be different as well, and the memory allocation in the error
> message never jived with the php.ini or phpinfo settings - so a bit of
> a red herring  there.
>
> So changing the design to just go to a base layout to work through,
> instead of working through portals, settled everything down.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions!
>
> --Karstyn
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Dale Bengston <dbengston at tds.net> wrote:
>> Another way to have this happen is to accidentally retrieve all the records out of a table. If you submit a query to FX that has no search terms, it's like doing a findall. I found this out the hard way on a table with 300K line items.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 7:18 PM, Karstyn McCoy wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Guys.
>>>
>>> I'll do some more debugging to check for endless loops or a
>>> malfunctioning part of the script.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --Karstyn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com> wrote:
>>>> Kartsyn,
>>>>
>>>> While you *could* have a script that requires more memory than has been
>>>> allocated, a more common source of the problem is an endless loop of a
>>>> script that normally doesn't need extra memory.
>>>>
>>>> Is the problem attributed to just one script?  Is it a new script? Are you
>>>> doing operations similar to other scripts that have no memory issues?
>>>>
>>>> If the answer to these questions is "Yes", than look for a malfunctionaing
>>>> script rather than a memory issue.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps,
>>>>
>>>> Jonthan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Not strictly an FX question but definitly PHP - so thought I try this
>>>>> list for some good ideas.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the issue:
>>>>> I get a following error when I execute a php script
>>>>> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to
>>>>> allocate 89727 bytes)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have normally fixed this by doing the following
>>>>> - Increase the memory size in php.ini file
>>>>> - added a line ini_set('memory_limit', -1)
>>>>> - restarting the web server and checking phpinfo to validate the change
>>>>>
>>>>> But I still get the error.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Karstyn
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>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jonathan Schwartz
>>>> Exit 445 Group
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