Question

I keep getting the following message when running a script:

Out of memory (allocated 58458112) (tried to allocate 20 bytes)

When I change the memory_limit in the php.ini or put ini_set("memory_limit","1024M") at the top of the script, the message is the exact same, as though no additional memory was used to run the script. Is there something else I can do to allocate more memory (outside of optimizing the script… it’s Magento, which needs an overhaul, but it don’t have the expertise to fix it).

Answer 1

This is probably due to your ulimit settings. Run ulimit -a and you will probably find something around that 58MB mark, i’m guessing 64000. You can change it with the ulimit command, but will probably need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf to make it persist.