By ThePeach on

hi all, sometimes since the other night, I get this error when I try to upload some images (usually bigger than 150kb)
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 12582912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2359296 bytes) in /web/htdocs/www.smartart.it/home/includes/image.inc on line 288
the image size is 105,6KB
The strange thing is that I've already uploaded this image!!! Now I cannot anymore!

the only thing I've added in drupal was the captcha and textimage modules, nothing more.
Should I open a support tiket with my linux hosting service? And what about? Could it be a problem of /tmp or /var full ?

I've drupal 4.7.3 installed with these modules:

  • captcha
  • image
  • img_assist
  • poormanscron
  • textimage

thanks for any help

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steve hanson commented

Your problem here is that you're trying to use more memory in PHP than you're allowed to allocate. Doing a search on this site would have helped you find the problem pretty easily. Take a look at http://drupal.org/node/76156

Steve Hanson
Principal Consultant Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
http://www.cruiskeenconsulting.com

Steve Hanson
Publisher Eye On Dunn County
https://eyeondunn.com

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ThePeach commented

Thanks for your help. I did the search and the result is not suitable for me.
2 things:

1st) I can't use any .htaccess neither modify the php.ini
2nd) the solution you pointed at is not the solution: I already have 12MB of max memory!!! as the error I reported is stating... It can't be wrong!!!

3rd) how did it work before yesterday, uploading without problems and now is not working? what is wrong? should I dig into the code by myself? and either open a bug report?
noone has ever reported problems like this and the only solution is giving more memory to drupal?
Another thing I noticed: the error I reported is prompted (not always as already stated) only when I try to preview the image.
Instead if I try to submit directly I get an: impossible to copy selected file into (/home/www.smartart.it/files/) and the image node is created anyway.

could it be significant? no execeeded memory reported and no error can be found in the logs...

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ThePeach commented

Ok, as long as I've inspected, the responsible of my half-madness is captcha.
Disabling it everything started working as espected.
Is this a bug or what?
I'm reporting it right now to the dev. team of captcha... hope this helps.