Title: Problem with Automatic WordPress Upgrade
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with Automatic WordPress Upgrade

 *  [jordashtalon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordashtalon/)
 * (@jordashtalon)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-wordpress-upgrade/)
 * When I try and do an automatic WordPress Upgrade I get this error:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   2976402 bytes)
 * Funny thing is it looks like it tried to allocate less bytes then allowed but
   it still get’s that error message.
 * Any ideas why?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-wordpress-upgrade/#post-1912655)
 *     ```
       1. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
       If your line shows 32M try 64M:
       memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
   
       2. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
       php_value memory_limit 128M
   
       3. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
       Increasing memory allocated to PHP
       define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');
   
       4. Talk to your host.
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-automatic-wordpress-upgrade/#post-1912655)
 * Status: not resolved

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