Hello,
I installed Gallery 2.3 and Druapl 6.3
Every worked fine until I uploaded more albums. Now my drupal installation is broken and the only thing I have is the following message.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6812159 bytes) in /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxx/html/drupalsandbox/includes/menu.inc on line 956

I tried to delete some albums from Gallery2, clear the caches and so on and I have the same message.
I tried to configure the memory settings in the main.php of Gallery2, in the .htaccess of drupal and Gallery2...

Always the same results.
Gallery2 stand alone works fine, no problem.

I would like my drupal back :-(

Thank you

Comments

mauror’s picture

It's PHP that is running out of RAM memory, and NO, this is not related to how much stuff do you have on your disk, or in your databases (again, disk-based).
It is the memory_limit directive of PHP that specifies how much RAM a php script is allowed to consume.
Documentation for the memory_limit, is on the PHP Website.
When dealing with php.ini directives you should always keep in mind that multiple copies of php.ini can be present on your machine, all in a hell of different places, but only one is actually used.
And to make the matter even worse, Apache is allowed to change the memory_limit directive, from its configuration files (httpd.conf and/or .htaccess).

So, how do you find the copy of php.ini that you need to edit?
Look into phpinfo() output, for a line that says:

Loaded Configuration File: 	/some/path

Find that file, look for a line that says:

memory_limit = 64K      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (64Kbytes)

And change it to something more sensible like 128MB...
And look for strange places where the directive could be hidden...

If you have shell access, try some grep..

~/html$ grep -R memory_limit * .ht*

By the way, the default value for the current PHP version is 128MB, for version 5.2.0 was 16Mb, before it used to be 8MB, so... what kind of environment are you using?

If you are not using PHP5, please advocate the transition: http://goPHP5.org/!

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cicciobombolo’s picture

Hello mauror,
Thank you very much for your quick answer. I have an economy plan with godaddy.com and I was not able to log on via ssh so no way to have shell access.

On my server memory_limit is 64M

memory_limit 64M 64M

Loaded Configuration File /web/conf/php5.ini
Bu I do not have access to this directory.

Any ideas ?
Thank you very much

Below the whole output of phpinfo

PHP Version 5.2.5

System Linux p3slh161.shr.phx3.secureserver.net 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP
Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686
Build Date Mar 3 2008 12:59:56
Configure Command './configure' '--enable-fastcgi'
'--prefix=/usr/local/php5' '--with-config-file-path=/web/conf'
'--disable-posix' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar'
'--with-curl=/usr/bin/curl' '--with-gdbm' '--enable-exif' '--enable-ftp'
'--with-gd' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-jpeg-dir=../jpeg-6b'
'--with-png-dir=/usr/local/bin/libpng-config' '--enable-gd-native-ttf'
'--with-gettext' '--with-mcrypt=/usr/bin/libmcrypt-config'
'--with-mhash' '--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-5.0/'
'--with-mysqli=/usr/local/mysql-5.0/bin/mysql_config' '--with-openssl'
'--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql-5.0/' '--with-pspell' '--enable-soap'
'--enable-wddx' '--with-xsl' '--with-zlib' '--enable-mbstring'
'--enable-zip'
Server API CGI/FastCGI
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /web/conf
Loaded Configuration File /web/conf/php5.ini
PHP API 20041225
PHP Extension 20060613
Zend Extension 220060519
Debug Build no
Thread Safety disabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams zip, php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib,
https, ftps
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3,
sslv2, tls
Registered Stream Filters string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower,
string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, convert.iconv.*, zlib.*

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Configuration

PHP Core

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browscap /no value/ /no value/
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ignore_repeated_errors Off Off
ignore_repeated_source Off Off
ignore_user_abort Off Off
implicit_flush Off Off
include_path .:/usr/local/php5/lib/php .:/usr/local/php5/lib/php
log_errors Off Off
log_errors_max_len 1024 1024
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magic_quotes_sybase Off Off
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bcmath

BCMath support enabled

calendar

Calendar support enabled

cgi-fcgi

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cgi.fix_pathinfo 0 0
cgi.nph 0 0
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ctype

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curl

cURL support enabled
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date

date/time support enabled
"Olson" Timezone Database Version 2007.9
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dba

DBA support enabled
Supported handlers gdbm cdb cdb_make inifile flatfile

dom

DOM/XML enabled
DOM/XML API Version 20031129
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HTML Support enabled
XPath Support enabled
XPointer Support enabled
Schema Support enabled
RelaxNG Support enabled

exif

EXIF Support enabled
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Directive Local Value Master Value
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ftp

FTP support enabled

gd

GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.0.34 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.1.4
GIF Read Support enabled
GIF Create Support enabled
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled
XBM Support enabled

gettext

GetText Support enabled

hash

hash support enabled
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iconv

iconv support enabled
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Directive Local Value Master Value
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json

json support enabled
json version 1.2.1

libxml

libXML support active
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libXML streams enabled

mbstring

Multibyte Support enabled
Multibyte string engine libmbfl
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mbstring extension makes use of "streamable kanji code filter and
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mcrypt

mcrypt support enabled
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Api No 20021217
Supported ciphers cast-128 gost rijndael-128 twofish arcfour cast-256
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Directive Local Value Master Value
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mhash

MHASH support Enabled
MHASH API Version 20020524

mysql

MySQL Support enabled
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Active Links 0
Client API version 5.0.18
MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE external
MYSQL_SOCKET /usr/local/mysql-5.0/data/mysql.sock
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mysqli

MysqlI Support enabled
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Directive Local Value Master Value
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openssl

OpenSSL support enabled
OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

pcre

PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support enabled
PCRE Library Version 7.3 2007-08-28

Directive Local Value Master Value
pcre.backtrack_limit 100000 100000
pcre.recursion_limit 100000 100000

PDO

PDO support enabled
PDO drivers sqlite2, sqlite, mysql

pdo_mysql

PDO Driver for MySQL, client library version 5.0.18

pdo_sqlite

PDO Driver for SQLite 3.x enabled
PECL Module version (bundled) 1.0.1 $Id: pdo_sqlite.c,v 1.10.2.6.2.2
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SQLite Library 3.3.17

pspell

PSpell Support enabled

Reflection

Reflection enabled
Version $Id: php_reflection.c,v 1.164.2.33.2.47 2007/10/28 13:47:14
iliaa Exp $

session

Session Support enabled
Registered save handlers files user sqlite
Registered serializer handlers php php_binary wddx

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session.serialize_handler php php
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session.use_only_cookies Off Off
session.use_trans_sid 0 0

SimpleXML

Simplexml support enabled
Revision $Revision: 1.151.2.22.2.35 $
Schema support enabled

soap

Soap Client enabled
Soap Server enabled

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soap.wsdl_cache_dir /tmp /tmp
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled 1 1
soap.wsdl_cache_limit 5 5
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SPL

SPL support enabled
Interfaces Countable, OuterIterator, RecursiveIterator,
SeekableIterator, SplObserver, SplSubject
Classes AppendIterator, ArrayIterator, ArrayObject,
BadFunctionCallException, BadMethodCallException, CachingIterator,
DirectoryIterator, DomainException, EmptyIterator, FilterIterator,
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LengthException, LimitIterator, LogicException, NoRewindIterator,
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ParentIterator, RangeException, RecursiveArrayIterator,
RecursiveCachingIterator, RecursiveDirectoryIterator,
RecursiveFilterIterator, RecursiveIteratorIterator,
RecursiveRegexIterator, RegexIterator, RuntimeException,
SimpleXMLIterator, SplFileInfo, SplFileObject, SplObjectStorage,
SplTempFileObject, UnderflowException, UnexpectedValueException

SQLite

SQLite support enabled
PECL Module version 2.0-dev $Id: sqlite.c,v 1.166.2.13.2.9 2007/05/19
17:58:22 iliaa Exp $
SQLite Library 2.8.17
SQLite Encoding iso8859

Directive Local Value Master Value
sqlite.assoc_case 0 0

standard

Regex Library Bundled library enabled
Dynamic Library Support enabled
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

Directive Local Value Master Value
assert.active 1 1
assert.bail 0 0
assert.callback /no value/ /no value/
assert.quiet_eval 0 0
assert.warning 1 1
auto_detect_line_endings 0 0
default_socket_timeout 60 60
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars PHP_ LANG LANG_ PHP_ LANG LANG_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
url_rewriter.tags a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=
a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset=
user_agent /no value/ /no value/

tokenizer

Tokenizer Support enabled

wddx

WDDX Support enabled
WDDX Session Serializer enabled

xml

XML Support active
XML Namespace Support active
libxml2 Version 2.6.16

xmlreader

XMLReader enabled

xmlwriter

XMLWriter enabled

xsl

XSL enabled
libxslt Version 1.1.12
libxslt compiled against libxml Version 2.6.15
EXSLT enabled
libexslt Version 1.1.12

zip

Zip enabled
Extension Version $Id: php_zip.c,v 1.1.2.38 2007/08/06 22:02:32 bjori
Exp $
Zip version 2.0.0
Libzip version 0.7.1

zlib

ZLib Support enabled
Stream Wrapper support compress.zlib://
Stream Filter support zlib.inflate, zlib.deflate
Compiled Version 1.1.4
Linked Version 1.2.3

Directive Local Value Master Value
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zlib.output_compression_level -1 -1
zlib.output_handler /no value/ /no value/

Additional Modules

Module Name

Environment

Variable Value
DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
HTTP_ACCEPT
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive
HTTP_COOKIE
SESSeecf62eb692e337e9ff3f2b749c68e0e=h3tqc43tgfr2otn7rihiuel5t7
HTTP_HOST drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
PATH_INFO /phpinfo.php
PHPRC /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html
QUERY_STRING /no value/
REDIRECT_STATUS 200
REMOTE_ADDR 67.170.82.138
REMOTE_PORT 33457
REQUEST_METHOD GET
REQUEST_URI /phpinfo.php
SCRIPT_FILENAME
/home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html/drupalsandbox/phpinfo.php
SCRIPT_NAME /phpinfo.php
SERVER_ADDR 72.167.131.29
SERVER_ADMIN support@supportwebsite.com
SERVER_NAME drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.33 Server at
drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu Port 80
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache
SPI TRUE
SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html/drupalsandbox

PHP Variables

Variable Value
_REQUEST["SESSeecf62eb692e337e9ff3f2b749c68e0e"] h3tqc43tgfr2otn7rihiuel5t7
_COOKIE["SESSeecf62eb692e337e9ff3f2b749c68e0e"] h3tqc43tgfr2otn7rihiuel5t7
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"] CGI/1.1
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]
text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET"] ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"] gzip,deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] en-us,en;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"] keep-alive
_SERVER["HTTP_COOKIE"]
SESSeecf62eb692e337e9ff3f2b749c68e0e=h3tqc43tgfr2otn7rihiuel5t7
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu
_SERVER["HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE"] 300
_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
_SERVER["PATH"] /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
_SERVER["PATH_INFO"] /phpinfo.php
_SERVER["PHPRC"] /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] /no value/
_SERVER["REDIRECT_STATUS"] 200
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] 67.170.82.138
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"] 33457
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] GET
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] /phpinfo.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]
/home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html/drupalsandbox/phpinfo.php
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] /phpinfo.php
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"] 72.167.131.29
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"] support@supportwebsite.com
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] 80
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] HTTP/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"] Apache/1.3.33 Server at
drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu Port 80
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] Apache
_SERVER["SPI"] TRUE
_SERVER["SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT"]
/home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html/drupalsandbox
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] /phpinfo.php
_SERVER["REQUEST_TIME"] 1218320939

Thank you very much

cicciobombolo’s picture

I have added

ini_set('memory_limit','128M');

to the settings.php.

for info, you cannot delete the file until you change the permission of the default directory.

Thanks

mauror’s picture

Glad to know you solved your problems...
But You should think twice before dumping phpinfo() out in the wild (I did not ask you to do it), there are quite a few personal informations in there: at least sanitize it...
A few things I didn't ask you, I don't need to know in order to help you, but that can be used against you are, for instance:

DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html

your account on godaddy: 'danielsue';

HTTP_HOST drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu

the name, of your website: 'drupalsandbox.theoddcouple.eu';

REMOTE_ADDR 67.170.82.138

your IP address: '67.170.82.138 = c-67-170-82-138.hsd1.wa.comcast.net.' (you from Washington area?);

SERVER_ADDR 72.167.131.29

your server IP address: '72.167.131.29'

SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/content/d/a/n/danielsue/html/drupalsandbox/phpinfo.php
SCRIPT_NAME /phpinfo.php

you should disable this: either delete it, or make it non readable by php;

Internet is not the safe and friendly place it used to be in the '70 and the '80...

Security is a habit.