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PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (Apache crash)

Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 11:03 am
by solinem
Hi:
I am somehow newbie and am trapped into a problem.
I am trying to find a solution for this error that consequentially leads to Apache Server crash.
Following is the message as seen in the error.log file:
PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 786432) (tried to allocate 32768 bytes)

SERVER CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Windows 2008 Enterprise Server
  • PHP 5.2.6
  • Apache/2.2.4 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8e
  • RAM=8gb,
PHP SERVER PARAMETERS:
  • max_execution_time = 720
  • max_input_time = 360
  • memory_limit = 5120 MB
After a few messages like this, the server ends with the message:
[notice] Parent: child process exited with status 255 -- Restarting.

Whenever it happens, I don't see a substantial rise in memory usage (well under the 5GB established in the configuration)
I think part of the problem is originated because the server is not releasing memory, and the data is adding-up.
It is surely a misconfiguration of my server
I have searched everywhere but didn't found a satisfying solution.

Thanks for your help.