Fatal error: Allowed memory size exhausted...

[RobFerrari]

Have vB 3.7.2.

Some searches are now bringing up the following error...

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/ferrari/public_html/forum/search.php on line 1151

[Steve Machol]

First, try lowering this setting to no more that 300:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Maximum Search Results to Return

[RobFerrari]

First, try lowering this setting to no more that 300:

Admin CP -> vBulletin Options -> Message Searching Options -> Maximum Search Results to Return

I have it at 250. This error has only happened past couple days and I haven't done anything to vB since my upgrade to 3.7.2 several weeks ago.

Something on the server running out of memory? Some searches are still working.

Thanks,
rob

[RobFerrari]

admin just doubled about of memory available for php and the errors stopped. is this the proper way to fix it? thanks.

[Steve Machol]

Then the only reason I can see for this is either a problem with the server or you have add-ons installed that are consuming memory.

Your PHP does not have enough memory allocated to it to complete this operation. Ask your host to increase the 'memory_limit' variable in php.ini to at least 64M.

To temporarily up your limits edit your includes/config.php file and add these lines right under the <?php line:

ini_set('memory_limit', 64 * 1024 * 1024);