PHP Memory Allocation

[Norfavrell]

Hello. I recently had to move to a new machine, everything went well except for one thing. I did fresh installation of LAMP server all with default configs. Every time I'm using PHP script to that invokes include, require or require_once I get the following error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /var/www/index.php on line 2

index.php file:
<?php
include "index.php";
?>


icukapi.php file:
<?php
echo "test";
?>


My memory_limit in php.ini is set to 20M. I tried to increase that however it didn't quite work. PHP seems to allocate all possible space and return that message every time i try.

If somebody has an idea of how to fix it I would be more than grateful. I spend quite a long time searching for an answer however the all things i found suggested increating memory_limit which in this case doesn't work.

Kind Regards,
norfavrell

[gopakumar.s]

Hi,

The default resource usage limit of your PHP is depended on your Linux distribution. Normally it can be 8M or 16M.

Changing the value in php.ini file will have a global effect on your system ie it can have an effect on all PHP scripts running on your system. You need to restart Apache to get this change reflected.


memory_limit = 64M

If you run the script on a virtual host, try adding adding the new memory value to the .htaccess file at the respective folder of the vhost. The change should be reflected immediately and it will have only a local effect on that particular folder or vhost. Apache restart not required.


php_value memory_limit 64M

You can also specify the memory limit inside a PHP script. The change should be reflected immediately and it will have an effect only on that single script. Apache restart not required.


ini_set('memory_limit', '64M');

Please keep in mind that, if you want to change your PHP memory limits from default, your PHP version must be compiled with –enable-memory-limit when you configure it. If your memory limit change won't get effected, check how your PHP was compiled.

Hope this may help.