Title: Memory error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Memory error * [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/) * Hi all, * I have been getting an error message on my dashboard about class-simplepie.php. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1966080 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxx/httpdocs/wp-includes/class-simplepie. php on line 5410 * I have got rid of it by deactivating all plugins. * However I am unable to upgrade to 3.0.1 as even with plugins deactivated I then get the error message of Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2966269 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx/httpdocs/ wp-includes/class-http.php on line 1408 * I have done some research but am not technical enough to follow it all. However as I understand it there is some memory problem. * The fix I have found is to add define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); to the wp-config. php, but I have tried that and it’s had no effect. * And all the stuff I have found in the research is about a year old, I can’t see anything newer than that, and nothing relating to version 3. * Anybody got any ideas what I can do to fix this? Originally the site itself was down but since deactivating the plugins it’s up, but obviously with problems. * Thanks Peter Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785026) * [increasing memory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP) available for php. * Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785032) * Thanks for that. * I’ve read that and added a line to wp-settings.php immediately after * // Set initial default constants including WP_MEMORY_LIMIT, WP_DEBUG, WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CACHE. wp_initial_constants( ); * I’ve added * define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’); * This didn’t have any effect, so I changed the 64 to 96 as it suggested, no effect either. * I may have put it in the wrong place though, I’m no expert at this stuff. Is this the right place? * Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/) * (@t-p) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785036) * that seems to be the right place. * have you contacted your hosting provider? * you may also try: * -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to narrow down and possibly fix the problem. If the problem goes away, activate them individually to find the culprit? * If you don’t have access to your admin area, try deactivating them [manually](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) via FTP or phpMyAdmin. * -switching to the default theme (Twenty Ten) for a moment by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes. The idea is to force WordPress to fall back to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific issue? * If you don’t have access to your admin area, then access your server via [FTP or SFTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever file management application your host provides. * Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785037) * Thanks, I’ll contact the hosting provider. * I can remove the error message by deactivating all plugins, but even with them all deactivated I still couldn’t upgrade, so there is still a problem even with plugins deactivated. * Tried changing to twenty ten, still all the same problems. * Thanks for the help * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785038) * I would suggest upgrading manually. Not every server is copacetic with upgrading the 3.x branches due to increased file size, among other things. * Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785041) * I might wait, as I still get the dashboard error about simple pie unless I deactivate all the plugins, so it looks like there’s still a memory issue regardless. I’ll see what the host says first. * But if that is fixed and I still can’t upgrade I’ll give that a go, thanks for the suggestion. Always installed via fantastico and done auto upgrade, so that will be a first for me. * Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785045) * Contacted host, they say I can add * memory_limit = 64M * to the php.ini and that will fix it. It’s on 32 m at the moment. * Tried that and it doesn’t work. Still getting * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1966080 bytes) in /var/www/vhosts/bulnbulnps.vic.edu.au/httpdocs/wp-includes/ class-simplepie.php on line 5410 * It’s not plugin specific, as I can deactivate random plugins and at a certain point it goes away, independent of which ones. * Hmm, no idea what to do now. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785072) * What kind of PHP are they using? Not the version, but like suPHP, or php-cgi, or what have you? * Thread Starter [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * (@peter1) * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785125) * They eventually worked it out for me. Somehow they upped the limit to 128m, everything works fine now. * Don’t know why my efforts didn’t work, but it’s fixed at least, thanks for all the help all. Peter Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘Memory error’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [peter1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peter1/) * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/memory-error-1/#post-1785125) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics