Re: PHP: Fatal error: Allowed memory exhausted

hm. it looks like set_time_limit(0); ok, then. how "smart" is to do something like this? what's a bad side? > 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 >> > if you set the memory_limit to 0, then the script has unlimited memory > to its disposal. > > Cheers > /V >