Re: [SOLVED] Why I sart getting "Fatal error: Allowed memory size..." after php upgrade?

Richard Lynch wrote: > On Thu, December 20, 2007 11:37 am, afan pasalic wrote: >> The hosting company I have one account (and several Add Domains) >> upgraded php on the server from 4.4.7 to 5.2.5. After the upgrade I >> start getting the error message: >> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to >> allocate 122880 bytes) in... >> on domains they use Gallery2 or are CMS (Joomla or Drupal) based. >> >> I contacted Tech. Support (Live Chat) and he told me I have to edit >> memory limit in php.ini (for each domain). >> >> I asked him why it started so suddenly, did upgrade caused the problem >> and I got as an answer: "Your scripts have begun to use more memory. >> That would be the only reason for this error." >> It doesn't make a sense to me and sounds like "let's blame something >> else" type of answer. >> >> I'm going to edit php.ini though what if "client" doesn't have a clue >> what's php.ini or how to do it? >> >> I would like to hear your opinion what caused the problem. >> I'll edit php.ini, I'm not going to make a big deal of it, though, I >> just want to know why it happened. > > PHP 5 uses more RAM than PHP 4, both to start up, and on a > script-for-script basis. > > It has more features, more OO complexity, and uses more RAM, plain and > simple. > > The PHP Dev Team increased the default/recommended memory limit from 8 > M to 16 M with the release of PHP 5. > > I think they even documented this change, but you'll have to dig that > out for yourself. > > Your hosting company probably kept the old php.ini without realizing > that they needed to read the docs and change it. > > ymmv > just talked to tech. support. actually, they didn't upgrade the server I was on the moved me completely to other server that use php5. they moved all my files - original php.ini as well. :) I'm going to to add domain in Addon Domains and then copy that php.ini on other Addon Domains. Thanks for help. -afan