PHP memory exhaustion

Submitted by dorax on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 18:12
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Every module takes up a tiny bit of memory. But I have recently seen that imageapi can actually use up A LOT of memory, when you use the GD toolkit. They claim it can use up to 96M?
Is this a realistic number?

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1. Is it shared hosting?

Submitted by Hajduk on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 00:51.

Is it shared hosting?

2. It's not related to the host.

Submitted by dorien on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 10:46.

It's not related to the host. This is the message imageapi displays in the status report.

"ImageAPI GD Memory Limit 64M
It is highly recommended that you set you PHP memory_limit to 96M to use ImageAPI GD. A 1600x1200 images consumes ~45M of memory when decompressed and there are instances where ImageAPI GD is operating on two decompressed images at once."

But I usually use a Virtual Private Server. This one, has 64M.

Better make ImageMagick work I think :-)

3. yes but shared hosting

Submitted by Hajduk on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 18:15.

yes but shared hosting companies usually restrict their resources and have cpu limitations in space.

VPS is always better :-) or dedicated for that matter.

4. Memory

Submitted by safeday on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 18:38.

I just my memory in the php.ini to 200m and that has solved all of my problems.