[Mediawiki-l] dumpHTML extension

[Benjamin Lees]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Beebe, Mary J <BeebeM at battelle.org> wrote:

> We are trying to use the dumpHTML extension.  With a large wiki, it is
> giving us memory errors.  In the middle of processing pages we receive:
>
>  Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2036072448) (tried to allocate 3168
> Bytes) in ...Hooks.php.
>
> It is not always the same page.  We have a PHP memory limit of 1000M.  Has
> anyone had any trouble with dumpHTML.
>
> We have always used the old dumpHTML within maintenance in MediaWiki
> version 1.9.2.  We have no trouble with the same wiki in a non-updated
> version on the same server.
>
> Has anyone had any trouble with this extension?
>
> Thanks,
> Mary Beebe
>

You're probably overriding your memory limit with an ini_set directive in
LocalSettings.php or an .htaccess file.  You might also not be using the
php.ini you think you are (check phpinfo() for that).