Title: Allowed Memory Size?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Allowed Memory Size?

 *  [patty25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patty25/)
 * (@patty25)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allowed-memory-size/)
 * Hello,
 * I am trying to install wordpress and I get the following error…
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   3840 bytes)
 * Is this problem with the memory on my hosting account?
 * Thanks for your help.
 * Patty

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allowed-memory-size/#post-1323874)
 * Try increasing the memory for PHP and WordPress by putting this line in your .
   htaccess file:
 * `php_value memory_limit 64M`
 * or this line near the top of your wp-config.php file:
 * `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');`
 * or in your php.ini, if you have access to it:
 * `memory_limit = 64M;`

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/allowed-memory-size/#post-1323874)
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