Title: Fatal error: memory exhausted
Last modified: September 9, 2020

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# Fatal error: memory exhausted

 *  Resolved [aspidistra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aspidistra/)
 * (@aspidistra)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-memory-exhausted-9/)
 * Immediately after “create new database backup” I get:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   176128 bytes) in /www/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1999
 * This is on a hosted website where we can’t adjust the allowed memory size. We
   have a fairly large POSTS table. Is there anything else we can do?

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 *  [Prashant Walke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/walkeprashant/)
 * (@walkeprashant)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-memory-exhausted-9/#post-13385857)
 * Hi,
 * Can you please share your site details on [walke.prashant28@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-memory-exhausted-9/walke.prashant28@gmail.com?output_format=md)
   so that i can check exact issue and try to fix.
 * Thanks!

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