Fatal Error Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted CodeIgniter XML-RPC

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I have a bunch of client point of sale  POS  systems that periodically send new sales data to one centralized database  which stores the data into one big database for report generation   The client POS is based on PHPPOS  and I have implemented a module that uses the standard XML-RPC library to send sales data to the service  The server system is built on CodeIgniter  and uses the XML-RPC and XML-RPCS libraries for the webservice component  Whenever I send a lot of sales data  as little as 50 rows from the sales table  and individual rows from sales items pertaining to each item within the sale  I get the following error   Fatal error  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted  tried to allocate 54 bytes    128M is the default value in php ini  but I assume that is a huge number to break  In fact  I have even tried setting this value to 1024M  and all it does is take a longer time to error out   As for steps I ve taken  I ve tried disabling all processing on the server-side  and have rigged it to return a canned response regardless of the input  However  I believe the problem lies in the actual sending of the data  I ve even tried disabling the maximum script execution time for PHP  and it still errors out

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When you see the above error - especially if the  tried to allocate    bytes  is a low value  that could be an indicator of an infinite loop  like a function that calls itself with no way out   function exhaustYourBytes         return exhaustYourBytes

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ini set  memory limit    -1    overrides the default PHP memory limit

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In my case it was a brief issue with the way a function was written  A memory leak can be caused by assigning a new value to a function s input variable  e g          Memory leak function that illustrates unintentional bad code    param  variable - input function that will be assigned a new value    return null     function doSomehting  variable        variable    set value          Or      variable     set value

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After enabling these two lines  it started working     Determines the size of the realpath cache to be used by PHP  This value should   be increased on systems where PHP opens many files to reflect the quantity of   the file operations performed    http   php net realpath-cache-size realpath cache size   16k    Duration of time  in seconds for which to cache realpath information for a given   file or directory  For systems with rarely changing files  consider increasing this   value    http   php net realpath-cache-ttl realpath cache ttl   120

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When I removed the following lines from my code  all worked OK   set include path get include path     get include path       phpseclib    include once  Net SSH2 php    include once  Net SFTP php      These lines were included in every file I was running  When running the files one by one  all worked OK  but when running all files together I got the memory leak issue  Somehow the  include once  is not including things once  or I am doing something wrong

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change  memory limit 512M to  memory limit -1 in  it s too dangerous for a server Your PHP code may have a memory leak somewhere and you are telling the server to just use all the memory that it wants  You wouldn t have fixed the problem at all  If you monitor your server  you will see that it is now probably using up most of the RAM and even swapping to disk

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The memory allocation for PHP can be adjusted permanently  or temporarily   Permanently  You can permanently change the PHP memory allocation two ways   If you have access to your php ini file  you can edit the value for memory limit to your desire value   If you do not have access to your php ini file  and your webhost allows it   you can override the memory allocation through your  htaccess file  Add php value memory limit 128M  or whatever your desired allocation is    Temporary  You can adjust the memory allocation on the fly from within a PHP file  You simply have the code ini set  memory limit    128M     or whatever your desired allocation is   You can remove the memory limit  although machine or instance limits may still apply  by setting the value to  -1

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Using yield might be a solution as well  See Generator syntax   Instead of changing the PHP ini file for a bigger memory storage  sometimes implementing a yield inside a loop might fix the issue  What yield does is instead of dumping all the data at once  it reads it one by one  saving a lot of memory usage

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PHP 5 3  allows you to change the memory limit by placing a  user ini file in the public html folder  Simply create the above file and type the following line in it   memory limit   64M   Some cPanel hosts only accept this method

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It s very easy to get memory leaks in a PHP script - especially if you use abstraction  such as an ORM  Try using Xdebug to profile your script and find out where all that memory went

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I had the error below while running on a dataset smaller than had worked previously      Fatal error  Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted  tried to allocate 4096 bytes  in C  workspace image management php on line 173   As the search for the fault brought me here  I thought I d mention that it s not always the technical solutions in previous answers  but something more simple  In my case it was Firefox  Before I ran the program it was already using 1 157 nbsp MB   It turns out that I d been watching a 50 minute video a bit at a time over a period of days and that messed things up  It s the sort of fix that experts correct without even thinking about it  but for the likes of me it s worth bearing in mind

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I kept getting this error  even with memory limit set in php ini  and the value reading out correctly with phpinfo     By changing it from this   memory limit 4G   To this   memory limit 4096M   This rectified the problem in PHP 7

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Changing the memory limit by ini set  memory limit    -1    is not a proper solution  Please don t do that   Your PHP code may have a memory leak somewhere and you are telling the server to just use all the memory that it wants  You wouldn t have fixed the problem at all   If you monitor your server  you will see that it is now probably using up most of the RAM and even swapping to disk   You should probably try to track down the offending code in your code and fix it

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In Drupal 7  you can modify the memory limit in the settings php file located in your sites default folder  Around line 260  you ll see this   ini set  memory limit    128M      Even if your php ini settings are high enough  you won t be able to consume more than 128 nbsp MB if this isn t set in your Drupal settings php file

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The most common cause of this error message for me is omitting the  quot    quot  operator from a PHP  quot for quot  statement  This causes the loop to continue forever  no matter how much memory you allow to be used  It is a simple syntax error  yet is difficult for the compiler or runtime system to detect  It is easy for us to correct if we think to look for it  But suppose you want a general procedure for stopping such a loop early and reporting the error  You can simply instrument each of your loops  or at least the innermost loops  as discussed below  In some cases such as recursion inside exceptions  set time limit fails  and the browser keeps trying to load the PHP output  either with an infinite loop or with the fatal error message which is the topic of this question  By reducing the allowed allocation size near the beginning of your code you might be able to prevent the fatal error  as discussed in the other answers  Then you may be left with a program that terminates  but is still difficult to debug  Whether or not your program terminates  instrument your code by inserting BreakLoop   calls inside your program to gain control and find out what loop or recursion in your program is causing the problem  The definition of BreakLoop is as follows  function BreakLoop  MaxRepetitions 500  LoopSite  quot unspecified quot             static  Sites         if     Sites  LoopSite       MaxRepetitions           Sites  LoopSite    n   gt 0   if   gt 0       if    MaxRepetitions          return      if     Sites  LoopSite   n    gt    MaxRepetitions                     S debug backtrace       array reverse          info  S 0            File  info  file             Line  info  line            exit  quot     Loop for site  LoopSite was interrupted after  MaxRepetitions repetitions  In file  File at line  Line  quot                       BreakLoop  The  LoopSite argument can be the name of a function in your code  It isn t really necessary  since the error message you will get will point you to the line containing the BreakLoop   call

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Running the script like this  cron case for example   php5  pathToScript info php produces the same error   The correct way  php5 -cli  pathToScript info php

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Change the memory limit in the php ini file and restart Apache  After the restart  run the phpinfo    function from any PHP file for a memory limit change confirmation   memory limit   -1   Memory limit -1 means there is no memory limit set  It s now at the maximum

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You can properly fix this by changing memory limit on fastcgi fpm    vim  etc php5 fpm php ini   Change memory  like from 128 to 512  see below    Maximum amount of memory a script may consume  128 MB    http   php net memory-limit memory limit   128M   to    Maximum amount of memory a script may consume  128 MB    http   php net memory-limit memory limit   512M

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Rather than changing the memory limit value in your php ini file  if there s a part of your code that could use a lot of memory  you could remove the memory limit before that section runs  and then replace it after    limit   ini get  memory limit    ini set  memory limit   -1          do heavy stuff ini set  memory limit    limit

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For those who are scratching their heads to find out why on earth this little function should cause a memory leak  sometimes by a little mistake  a function starts recursively call itself for ever   For example  a proxy class that has the same name for a function of the object that is going to proxy it   class Proxy        private  actualObject       public function doSomething              return  this- gt actualObjec- gt doSomething              Sometimes you may forget to bring that little actualObjec member and because the proxy actually has that doSomething method  PHP wouldn t give you any error and for a large class  it could be hidden from the eyes for a couple of minutes to find out why it is leaking the memory

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Your site s root directory   ini set  memory limit    1024M

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Just add a ini set  memory limit    -1    line at the top of your web page   And you can set your memory as per your need in the place of -1  to 16M  etc

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When adding 22 5 million records into an array with array push I kept getting  memory exhausted  fatal errors at around 20M records using 4G as the memory limit in file php ini  To fix this  I added the statement   old   ini set  memory limit    8192M      at the top of the file  Now everything is working fine  I do not know if PHP has a memory leak  That is not my job  nor do I care  I just have to get my job done  and this worked   The program is very simple    fh   fopen  myfile   while   feof  fh         array push  file  stripslashes fgets  fh       fclose  fh     The fatal error points to line 3 until I boosted the memory limit  which eliminated the error

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If you re running a WHM-powered VPS  virtual private server  you may find that you do not have permissions to edit PHP INI directly  the system must do it  In the WHM host control panel  go to Service Configuration  rarr  PHP Configuration Editor and modify memory limit

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I spent two dyas looking a solution for this and I figured out that this was cause in a call with PDO when I called  stmt- gt bindParam  quot  PERIOD quot    period     and the variables period was an empty string     So this issue could have multiple root cause  my advice to you is that try a trial and error or a bisection method for a root cause finding  delete code and the try to search what is the line code that is failing Update  I also faced this error with the method  pdo- gt query   I used  pdo- gt prepare   and worked well  so  while I had  sql    quot SELECT   FROM COURSE DETAILS where ACTIVE   1 AND COURSE DETAILS ID    id quot    stmt   getConnection  - gt query  sql    courseDetails    stmt- gt fetchAll PDO  FETCH ASSOC   then i changed this to  sql    quot SELECT   FROM COURSE DETAILS where ACTIVE   1 AND COURSE DETAILS ID     quot    stmt   getConnection  - gt prepare  sql    stmt- gt execute array  id      and magically the memory error dissapeared

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In my case on mac  Catalina - Xampp  there was no loaded file so I had to do this first  sudo cp  etc php ini default  etc php ini sudo nano  etc php ini  Then change memory limit   512M Then Restart Apache and check if file loaded php -i   grep php ini  Result was Configuration File  php ini  Path   gt   etc Loaded Configuration File   gt   etc php ini  Finally Check php -r  quot echo ini get  memory limit   PHP EOL  quot

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The correct way is to edit your php ini file  Edit memory limit to your desire value   As from your question  128M  which is the default limit  has been exceeded  so there is something seriously wrong with your code as it should not take that much   If you know why it takes that much and you want to allow it set memory limit   512M or higher and you should be good

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I find it useful when including or requiring  dbconnection php  and  functions php in files that are actually processed  rather than including in the header  Which is included in itself     So if your header and footer is included  simply include all your functional files before the header is included

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Crash page      It happens when MySQL has to query large rows  By default  memory limit is set to small  which was safer for the hardware    You can check your system existing memory status  before increasing php ini     free -m              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem          64457      63791        666          0       1118      18273 -   buffers cache       44398      20058 Swap          1021          0       1021   Here I have increased it as in the following and then do service httpd restart to fix the crash page issue     grep memory limit  etc php ini memory limit   512M

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For Drupal users  this Chris Lane s answer of   ini set  memory limit    -1      works but we need to put it just after the opening   lt  php   tag in the index php file in your site s root directory

[php] Fatal Error: Allowed Memory Size of 134217728 Bytes Exhausted (CodeIgniter + XML-RPC)

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