Title: Fatal Memory Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Fatal Memory Error

 *  Resolved [brandrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brandrobins/)
 * (@brandrobins)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/)
 * Okay, since updating to 2.1 I’ve had two problems. The first, my missing plugins
   page, I’ve already posted about.
 * But now when I try to leave a comment, or when the blog goes to autosave a post,
   I get the following message:
 * “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 52428800 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   253742 bytes) in /home/.echo/directory/games.spaceanddeath.com/yudhishthirasdice/
   wp-includes/functions.php on line 326”
 * Anyone have an idea what could be causing this?

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 *  [championeer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/championeer/)
 * (@championeer)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518476)
 * I met the same problem!! Who can help me?
 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518477)
 * Are you sure it says “52428800 bytes exhausted”? That’s a lot more that usually
   allowed for and almost certainly substantially more than a (normal) WP installation
   requires. Anyway, to increase the PHP memory limit, change the “memory_limit”
   variable in your “php.ini” file.
 * If your WP is hosted, you’ll have to ask them to do it for you.
 *  [championeer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/championeer/)
 * (@championeer)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518483)
 * I disabled Google Sitemaps plugin and everything is ok again(thank wordpress 
   testers). Maybe you should check your plugins.
 *  Thread Starter [brandrobins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brandrobins/)
 * (@brandrobins)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518508)
 * Thanks guys, I’ll try both of those .
 * Google Sitemaps may be trickier than it should, as the other problem I’m having
   is that I can’t get to my plugins page, but I’ll tinker and see what happens.
 *  [jugmar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jugmar/)
 * (@jugmar)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518575)
 * So, what happens…???
 *  [portent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/portent/)
 * (@portent)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518627)
 * Which ever scripts have this problem, add the following at the start of the script
   just after <php
 * ini_set(“memory_limit”,”16M”);
 * You can use smaller or larger values. eg 12M, 20M etc.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-memory-error/#post-518627)
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