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Souvick Dey
Souvick Dey

Reputation: 505

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 87 bytes)

When I login to my web application it shows an error like:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 87 bytes) in /gt/2.ps.fo/home/hft/domains/console.fo.spalgo.com/public_html/cake/libs/model/datasources/dbo/dbo_mysql.php on line 775

Is there any solution to solve this problem? Why do I get this error?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 38536

Answers (5)

AlphaZygma
AlphaZygma

Reputation: 228

Looking at the file that threw the fatal exception (dbo_mysql.php) I presume that your call is retrieving data from the DataBase.

Also, looking at the memory limit, it shows 134217728 bytes, which is 128MB, so I think that whatever your API call is doing, is trying to fetch a lot of data which total surpasses the limit allocated per script.
For example, if the last script in the API call stack were to use 20MB for its needs and then tires to fetch data from the DB worth 115MB, your script would be trying to allocate 135MB which is already 7MB more than the limit and thus causing the Fatal Exception.

So, I see a few things to check/do:

  1. That you are not retrieving unnecessary data, or in other words, retrieve only what you need.
  2. If you indeed need all that data, then
    • Either increase the memory_limit value under your php.ini file
      Con: If your data keeps growing, you may need to keep updating this value for the only one script and exposing your self to memory leaks or running out of memory.
    • Or I would recommend that you implement some sort of pagination (which will allow you to keep memory limits in check) and make your application more scalable.

Upvotes: 1

user2575350
user2575350

Reputation: 17

ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');

Upvotes: 0

Explosion Pills
Explosion Pills

Reputation: 191809

Try using echo instead of storing what you are printing to a variable first.

Upvotes: 1

sarnold
sarnold

Reputation: 104110

That sounds like you've allocated more memory than PHP will allow. Edit the memory_limit setting in your site php.ini configuration as described on the linked page.

Another possibility (less likely) is that you've hit the setrlimit(2) resource limits for your user or group. Check /etc/security/limits.conf for limits that might be set for your web server, along with whatever initialization scripts start your server environment and PHP interpreter environment.

Upvotes: 10

pavium
pavium

Reputation: 15128

The first example I found by searching SO for "PHP out of memory" is this one

Upvotes: 3

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