Using a lot of/too much memory

I have sites at 8M and Views works on them. But then I don't have any realy complex Views.

What other modules do you have? Views can use a bit of memory, but the amount of memory that's really used is a combination of the whole site's worth of modules, plus the modules you're using that utilize Views.

It's been found that lots of CCK fields really crank up the amount of memory that gets used. This is partly a flaw in Views, but it's not natively Views using that memory.

http://drupal.org/node/147583#comment-259230

I too am getting allowed memory exhausted, but not on a consistent basis. I can replicate it most reliably when I try to edit forums in admin/content/forum, where it occurs about every other time I load the page, but I also get it on admin/build/modules and perhaps some other places. I suspect something is flying off the wheel somewhere in views_cache.

PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 695222 bytes) in /home/virtual/site100/fst/var/www/html/sfn/modules/views/views_cache.inc on line 146, referer: http://www..net/sfn/?q=admin/content/forum/edit/forum/162

Looking at the page source, I do note that there is a block view on the page, it's export is listed below

  $view = new stdClass();
  $view->name = 'view_articles';
  $view->description = 'View the latest submitted articles';
  $view->access = array (
);
  $view->view_args_php = '';
  $view->page = TRUE;
  $view->page_title = 'News Articles';
  $view->page_header = '';
  $view->page_header_format = '4';
  $view->page_footer = '';
  $view->page_footer_format = '4';
  $view->page_empty = '';
  $view->page_empty_format = '4';
  $view->page_type = 'teaser';
  $view->url = 'view/articles';
  $view->use_pager = TRUE;
  $view->nodes_per_page = '25';
  $view->block = TRUE;
  $view->block_title = 'Latest News Articles';
  $view->block_header = '';
  $view->block_header_format = '4';
  $view->block_footer = '';
  $view->block_footer_format = '4';
  $view->block_empty = '';
  $view->block_empty_format = '4';
  $view->block_type = 'list';
  $view->nodes_per_block = '5';
  $view->block_more = TRUE;
  $view->block_use_page_header = FALSE;
  $view->block_use_page_footer = FALSE;
  $view->block_use_page_empty = FALSE;
  $view->sort = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'node',
      'field' => 'created',
      'sortorder' => 'DESC',
      'options' => 'normal',
    ),
  );
  $view->argument = array (
  );
  $view->field = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'node',
      'field' => 'title',
      'label' => '',
      'handler' => 'views_handler_field_nodelink',
      'sortable' => '1',
      'options' => 'link',
    ),
    array (
      'tablename' => 'node',
      'field' => 'created',
      'label' => '',
      'handler' => 'views_handler_field_date_small',
      'sortable' => '1',
      'defaultsort' => 'DESC',
    ),
  );
  $view->filter = array (
    array (
      'tablename' => 'term_node_9',
      'field' => 'tid',
      'operator' => 'OR',
      'options' => '',
      'value' => array (
  0 => '69',
),
    ),
  );
  $view->exposed_filter = array (
  );
  $view->requires = array(node, term_node_9);
  $views[$view->name] = $view;

This is the version info on my views module:

; $Id: views.info,v 1.2.2.4 2007/06/18 23:07:13 dww Exp $
name = Views
description = The views module creates customized views of node lists.
package = Views

; Information added by drupal.org packaging script on 2007-07-14
version = "5.x-1.6"
project = "views"
datestamp = "1184451606"

Hope this might help.

duplicate of this: http://drupal.org/node/83490