Title: Odd WordPress memory_limit issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Odd WordPress memory_limit issue

 *  [commuterzombie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/commuterzombie/)
 * (@commuterzombie)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-wordpress-memory_limit-issue/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m helping a friend with a WordPress site (hosted on a Cpanel/WHM server) and
   he’s having an odd problem. Browsing to the main page of the site generates this
   error:
 * Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 17039360) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes)
   in /home/<user>/public_html/wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 797
 * Normally I’d expect this issue to be caused by a memory_limit restriction in 
   either the php.ini file on the server, or a memory limit directive in wp-config.
   php. However I’ve changed the limit in both to 64MB (and restarted Apache and
   checked that this is the applied setting with a phpinfo script) and this error
   has persisted.
 * What is strange is that it’s choking at around 16MB of memory – it should have
   another 48MB to play with! The Apache error logs aren’t too helpful and I’m not
   that familiar with WordPress so I don’t know if this is a known issue. Searching
   for other topics on this issue has just got me a load of articles on how to update
   the memory_limit directive, which hasn’t helped.
 * I’d appreciate any help that you WordPress gurus can offer with this. Cheers!

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