Re: PHP: Fatal error: Allowed memory exhausted

afan@afan.net wrote: > Hi, > I'm working on the script that has to read csv file (51 column an a little > bit over 3000 rows) with products and store the info in DB. > Script works fine while I tested on csv files up to 200 records. > And, when I tried to upload REAL data I got this. > PHP: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted ... > > On google I found as a solution to put > ini_set("memory_limit","12M"); > on the top of the script, except allowed memory size wasn't 8m then 12m > bytes. > I tried with 16M and it worked :) > > My question is how "far" I can go with increasing? Where is "the limit"? > Why is not 24M as default in php.ini? > > Thanks! > > -afan > > I think 16m should be enough in most cases.. Would like to see the script. Try to avoid reading large files in once file() file_get_contents0. Use fopen en fgets. I work with txt files over 40 m and hardly get 1 m of memory usage. You could also try to run the program with the unix nice command. Just don't think increasing is a solution. What if you get a 300 m csv file? Well just my 2 cents. Thijs