Title: Php memory limit not updated Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Php memory limit not updated * [xphunt3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xphunt3r/) * (@xphunt3r) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/) * Hi I am having the problem with php memory limit. I have increased php memory to 128MB in php.ini but it is not updated. It still show i have 32MB php memory limit. When I check php info file, it shows 128MB. When I check php limit information with TPC! Memory Usage plugin, it shows 32MB. I talk to web hosting, they told they have increased it to 128MB but why I am still having 32MB. When I add php_value memory_limit 16M to .htaccess file it shows 500 server error to my site. My wordpress memory limit is set to 128Mb so there is no problem with wp memory. * Any help? * kind regard Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/page/2/?output_format=md) * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522184) * Did you ever get this resolved? If so… how? * [Chinmoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chinmoy/) * (@chinmoy) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522185) * write in wp-config.php file following code `define("WP_MEMORY_LIMIT", 128);` * One more thing that when you updare the php.ini file then need to restart the server(apache or IIS); After that you will get updating settings. * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522186) * I did and set it to 200mb * The max memory available is now 200mb but it still shows the memory limit as 90MB! See below. Any ideas… * ***************************************************** Mem: WP 200M Usage 58% 52.11M Limit 90M * * Server: OS Linux Software Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8e- fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/ 5.2.13 Version 64Bit System: PHP 5.2.13 SQL 5.1.48 Build 5.1.48 WordPress: VER 3.0.1 Max Post 500M Max Upload 500M Debug: State 0 Display 1 Log 0 Script 0 Deprecated 0 * SQL Uptime: 0 days, 1 hours, 9 minutes, 49 seconds * Default Theme: twentyten (since wp-3.0) Allow DB Repair: 0 (since wp-2.9) Auto- Save: 0 Interval 60 seconds (since wp-2.5) WP (Hyper – Super – W3 Total) Cache: 1 (since wp-2.6) Magpie RSS Cache: 1 Age 3600 seconds (since wp-1.5) Post Revisions: 1 (since wp-2.6) Trash: 0 Empity 30 days (since wp-2.9) Media 0 (wp-3.0?) * Need MU~LTI-SITE Version? * Legend 0=disabled 1=enabled * PHP or WP * [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/) * (@greuben) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522187) * Did you restart apache after increasing the PHP limit? * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522188) * Sure did… Restarted many times. I think thats why I see the available memory as 200mb. But setting the memory limit in the config file didn’t help. * [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/) * (@greuben) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522189) * hmm…Just check if you inserted the code correctly in wp-congifg.php file… ** Eg:-** `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT','200m');` * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522190) * man… this is weird. I actually cut and paste your statement verbatim… Plus I restarted apache from the root account in ssh. * `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT','200m');` * The only difference was the lowercase ‘m’. But… no luck. still says the memory limit is 90. * I don’t get it? is this cached or in the database somewhere? * [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/) * (@greuben) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522191) * Where are you adding this code? at the end of the file? * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522192) * Hey there… I’m putting it in the config.php file near the end. See below. * ``` /** WordPress absolute path to the WordPress directory. */ if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT','200m'); /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */ require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); ``` * [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/) * (@greuben) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522193) * clear the cache & deactivate all cache plugins and see if it helps. if it doesn’t open wp-includes >> default-constants.php and check whether this code exists( on line 39) `@ini_set('memory_limit', WP_MEMORY_LIMIT);` * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522194) * hey there… * `@ini_set('memory_limit', WP_MEMORY_LIMIT);` does exist. * I also manually deleted the cache. that must be getting set somewhere. Arggh 🙁 * Site is very slow sometimes. * [Reuben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greuben/) * (@greuben) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522195) * try to change that line and see if it works(also clear cache after changing it) `@ ini_set('memory_limit', '200M');` * [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/) * (@mykkal) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522196) * didnt work. man! * [einrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/einrad/) * (@einrad) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522211) * I really need help on this too. I tried everything above, but in my case it looks like something is keeping it at a memory limit of 32M. * Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/mysite/public_html/blog/wp-includes/kses.php(550) : runtime-created function * My host tried bumping it up to 64M and 80M but the same thing, exhausted at 32M. Help! * [Kevin Cristiano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kcristiano/) * (@kcristiano) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/#post-1522212) * Give this Plugin a try: [Memory Bump ](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 21 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Php memory limit not updated’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/) * [php 5.3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-5-3/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 21 replies * 10 participants * Last reply from: [smithdoctah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smithdoctah/) * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-memory-limit-not-updated/page/2/#post-1522226) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics