By Danio on

I just installed 4.5.0 CVS. I get this message when I go to admin/modules.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3840 bytes) in /home/danzeth/www/www/modules/throttle.module on line 23

What do I do about this? O_o Thanks in advance.

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Danio commented

And now, instead of the above, it says:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) in /home/danzeth/www/www/modules/project/mail.inc on line 243

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chaitanyajakhadi commented

If you are using PHP Accelerator, check following URL
http://phpa.phorum.org/read.php?f=2&i=1037&t=1037

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Uwe Hermann commented

Your PHP is configured to only allow 8 MB of memory per PHP page, which somehow seems to be not enough. If you use your own server, you can edit your php.ini and increase the value of the memory_limit variable, that should fix the problem.

But this memory exhaustion shouldn't happen in the first place, might be a bug (memory-leak?) in Drupal...

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Danio commented

Thanks, I increased the limit to 10 MB in php.ini and that fixed it. I don't know much about these things but isn't 8 MB quite a bit?

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The admin/modules page loads *every* module. Every other page only loads the enabled modules.

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killes@www.drop.org commented

I think that if we'd split up the modules in .module and .inc files we could avoid this problem to some degree.

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beginner commented

I just had this problem precisely just after uploading a lot of new modules I wanted to test, when I tried to browse /admin/modules/

I am on a collocationg server, and I can't change php/apache settings.

What else could I do, short of deleting all new modules?

You mentionned a memory leak? Should this be reported as a bug?

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beginner commented

I found the solution from another site (deanspace)
add the following line to .htaccess at the root of the drupal installation:

php_value memory_limit 16M

It works for me, even though the admin/modules page loads a bit slowly...

Still, is it normal that it uses so much memory. Should it still be considered a bug?

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skeen commented

worked on this for about 6 hrs. I was getting no errors, output to the page was just ending.

php_value memory_limit 16M fix the issue for me also.

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makatozi commented

Thanks so much for sharing that modification to the .htaccess file. It saved me tons of grief.

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MichaleR commented

I had the same problem and then kicked up my allocation to 24M My script is failing at the same point.

What needs to be done to get the program/process to reread /etc/php.ini ?

restatement of question: does one have to refresh (or start/stop) the web server for this to take effect?

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Uwe Hermann commented

AFAIK yes. Do something like this:

/etc/init.d/apache restart

That should do the trick.

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beginner commented

beside the tip given above, here is a patch to avoid this kind of problem in the future:

http://drupal.org/node/34694
http://drupal.org/node/35657

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