Title: Fatal error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Fatal error

 *  Resolved [myroxie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myroxie/)
 * (@myroxie)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/)
 * This fatal error keeps showing up in the admin area:
    Fatal error: Allowed memory
   size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 820473 bytes) in /home/accountname/
   public_html/domainname.com/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfConfig.php on line
   445
 * I have posted this to my host and they insist my account has ample memory. It
   is a reseller account with a decent allotment. What does this mean? And does 
   it mean that Wordfence is no longer working for this site? I have Wordfence installed
   in several other sites in this same hosting account with the same resource allotment
   and none of them are showing this error.
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 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/#post-4316921)
 * Hi there,
 * Your server is running out of memory at around 64 megs. You can use the memory
   testing tool at the bottom of the Wordfence options page to verify this. Please
   ask your host to increase your memory to around 128 megs.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.
 *  Thread Starter [myroxie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myroxie/)
 * (@myroxie)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/#post-4316922)
 * Thank you, Mark, My host tech support explicitly told me that there is 128 megs
   available.
 * When I did the test this is what came up:
    Wordfence Memory benchmarking utility
   version 3.8.8. This utility tests if your WordPress host respects the maximum
   memory configured in their php.ini file, or if they are using other methods to
   limit your access to memory.
 * –Starting test–
    Current maximum memory configured in php.ini: 128M Current memory
   usage: 10.00M Setting max memory to 90M. Starting memory benchmark. Seeing an
   error after this line is not unusual. Read the error carefully to determine how
   much memory your host allows. We have requested 90 megabytes. Completing test
   after benchmarking up to 80.25 megabytes. –Test complete.–
 * Congratulations, your web host allows you to use at least 80.25 megabytes of 
   memory for each PHP process hosting your WordPress site.
 *  [petriknz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petriknz/)
 * (@petriknz)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/#post-4317052)
 * [@myroxie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myroxie/)
 * Did you ever get this sorted? I seem to be running in to the same issue.
 *  Thread Starter [myroxie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myroxie/)
 * (@myroxie)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/#post-4317053)
 * Hello petiknz,
    I’m sorry, but I have no memory about what happened next. I haven’t
   run into the error lately, so I assume either I did something (that I can’t recall)
   or the issue self-corrected. I did move some of my sites to a new host, so that
   might have improved matters. But I can’t remember which site was having the problem
   and whether that was one that I moved. Sorry I can’t be more helpful

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 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)

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 * Last reply from: [myroxie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myroxie/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-984/#post-4317053)
 * Status: resolved