Title: Cannot allocate memory: couldn’t spawn child process:
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot allocate memory: couldn’t spawn child process:

 *  [msjihan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msjihan/)
 * (@msjihan)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-allocate-memory-couldnt-spawn-child-process/)
 * Try running install.php, thats what i got fews days ago, been trying to find 
   out myself browsing wordpress support and google, I’ve talked to my host and 
   they said they fixed the caching/memory problem.
 * My error log says: Cannot allocate memory: couldn’t spawn child process: on index.
   php
 * Database is intact, i have a backup but it wont work, i tried to click install.
   php but i was afraid to continue, i noticed that one new user was added as admin
   in my database which i deleted already, which i think is due to the default page
   showing to install wordpress.
 * I need help as to where to start checking, or any suggestion what are the other
   possible cause.

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 *  Thread Starter [msjihan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msjihan/)
 * (@msjihan)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-allocate-memory-couldnt-spawn-child-process/#post-669575)
 * waiting, help…
 *  Thread Starter [msjihan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msjihan/)
 * (@msjihan)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-allocate-memory-couldnt-spawn-child-process/#post-669724)
 * after 24 hours, it went ok, will try to update myself 🙂

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