Blank white page - Allowed memory size of 134217728

[berd27]

Hi,

I have the following problem, I have about 15 categories and several subcategories added, so far so good, but now when i want to add category number 16 I get a blank white page. So i checked the logfiles what happend. The log files gives me everytime i want to add a new category the following error:

Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17440 bytes)

I have set the server to 128 MB of memory which should be more than enough, after some Google search i found out that this is often caused by bad programming.

"This helps prevent poorly written scripts for eating up all available memory "
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.memory-limit

So what is going on here? I can set 128 MB to 256 MB but when I raised this limit then the server from memory by running a PHP script to query several times

-- cheers --
BerD

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Bad written scripts should be any complex scripts like shopping cart systems I must admit. Complexity is not bad thing in e-commerce you know.

Yes, you should use 256 MB.

I can set 128 MB to 256 MB but when I raised this limit then the server from memory by running a PHP script to query several times

I don't understand you.

[berd27]

Thanks for the reply.

What i mean is the following:

If I increase the memory then the server can run out of memory because of when the PHP script is request several times

--cheers--

[Maxim Pishnyak]

Could I see error for 256 Mb case? Is it clean Joomla 2.5 with VM 2.0.24?

[berd27]

Yes, it is a clean Joomla 2.5.X with Virtuemart 2.0.24. I did not increase the memory yet, i only get this error on the 128MB.
But i think it is very strange that it uses that much amount of memory for just adding category.

[jenkinhill]

Joomla 2.5 does work best on 256Mb even without VirtueMart. Previously a reason for memory issues while adding a product or category has been that the image file size was too big.

[berd27]

the image file size was too big.

Do you mean the image file of the uploaded category / product image?

[jenkinhill]

Any of them, depending on what was being saved at the time. Otherwise, turning on Joomla error reporting and VM debug may help track the issue.