Andre Bonhote wrote:
I have noticed that it doesn't only fail with the upload page, but also with pages like Special:Allmessages. I have checked my php.ini and verified that it's being loaded (phpinfo()). I have set the memory limit to 32M, which should be enough.
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Apparently, 20M is not enough. I have set it to 32M and now it works.
Any idea how I could save some memory?
Note that recent versions of PHP (5.1 or 5.2?) have changed how they account memory in a way which tends to inflate the numbers (or rather, the old counts were too small), so you're more likely to hit problems with a smaller limit than you used it. I'll go ahead and raise the default "bumped" amount...
If your MediaWiki installation is resizing image thumbnails using the internal GD libraries, it's also more likely to hit limits, since the full image gets loaded into PHP-accounted memory. Try installing ImageMagick and switching to it if possible (or just keep the memory limit higher :)
-- brion