search.php on line 1033. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes...

[biggazillakilla]

One of my users is reporting this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 456544 bytes) in /home/thiserver/public_html/forums/search.php on line 1033

I searched a bit on the Internet, but haven't found a solution.

My forum has about 750,000 posts and about 80,000 members.

Thanks.

[Steve Machol]

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);

Note: You might want to also consider lowering this number:

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

[Wayne Luke]

What are they searching for? Most likely cause its an overly common word and you have vBulletin set to return more than the most recent 500 results.

[biggazillakilla]

I'm not sure what term the user is searching.

This:

Maximum Search Results to Return

is set to 100.