Getting Fatal error: Out of memory on meta_tags.php

[jds580s]

I'm randomly getting the error:

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 4980736) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/noteable/public_html/zencart/includes/modules/meta_tags.php on line 265 

when browsing a store I'm working on (admin side as well)

I have not made any changes to the meta_tags.php file but the error is always on the same line 265. However when I get the error If I just wait a few seconds and refresh it usually goes away.

I'm curious if anyone else has seen this error and knows more about, or perhaps if there is a problem with the host's server.

you may be able to see the problem by browsing here:
link

Thanks!

[kobra]

You might add what type of server - cpu's - mem - etc.

Can find some of thie in your admin > tools > server version info

[jds580s]

Thanks!

Server Host: f1-cps01.adhost.com (10.142.18.150)
Database Host: localhost (127.0.0.1)
Server OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
Database: MySQL 5.0.45
Server Date: 10/25/2007 16:47:51
Database Date: 10/25/2007 16:47:51

Server Up Time: 4:47PM up 33 days, 21:47, 0 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
PHP Version: 5.2.4 (Zend: 2.2.0)
HTTP Server: Apache/1.3.39 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_log_bytes/1.2 PHP/5.2.4 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_ssl/2.8.30 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1

Zen Cart: 1.3.7.1
Database Patch Level: 1.3.7.1

If any of the phpinfo data would be useful I'm happy to post that as well

[DrByte]

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 4980736) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/noteable/public_html/zencart/includes/modules/meta_tags.php on line 265

You probably have too low a setting for memory_limit in your server's php.ini configuration:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.cor...esource-limits

It's only trying to allocate 5 MB ... most servers using PHP scripts would typically set their memory_limit to 16M or even 32M if they're using intense scripts.

[jds580s]

Thanks so much! I'll give that a try and see if it stops the errors.

[kobra]

but the error is always on the same line 265.

I got

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 4980736) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/noteable/public_html/zencart/includes/modules/create_account.php on line 377

If you have the ability to use the .htaccess functions you can add this to that file or request that your host set this to a higher value from their end

php_value memory_limit 64M

[jds580s]

I just made the change in the .htaccess file in the /zencart folder. I can see when running phpinfo that the memory_limit went from 32M to 64M but I'm still getting the error.

As was mentioned I was incorrect in saying it was always the same line. the first error I got after making the memory_limit change was

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2883584) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/noteable/public_html/zencart/includes/functions/functions_general.php on line 1183

[DrByte]

Sounds like it's time to talk to the server administrator to find out what changed since it last worked properly ...

[jds580s]

Sounds like it's time to talk to the server administrator to find out what changed since it last worked properly ...

Well I think this was a problem on their end. Not sure exactly what it was but it's fixed for the time being anyway.

Thanks for the advice everyone!