I’m seeing this error in my production server, sometimes (I mean, it seems random, as my site as a decent traffic and so far it just happened 5 times):
[21-Feb-2012 23:43:19 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 261900 bytes) in /home/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxx.php on line 1811
The funny part is, the file has only 798 lines, and this never happened before to me.
It may have to do with recent changes I made to my scripts, yes, but this error simply doesn’t make sense to me.
Please keep in mind that I know what “Allowed memory size exhausted” error means, and I know how to increase the memory limit.
However, my question here is, why is PHP referring to a line that doesn’t exist?
I don’t know how to fix this problem, because this makes no sense to me.
Thank you.
I’ve just found what was causing this memory leak.
It was a recent change that was entering in recursion cycle between two functions, although it was a rare event.
The line 1811 is real, yes, but the file that the error was referring is not correct. The line 1811 was from another file (included on that referred one) where one of the functions is.
I still appreciate the help from the people who commented above.