Apache dying after migration

Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 140 bytes) The message looks like PHP is hitting the 'memory_limit = 8M'.

@pclissold:

Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 140 bytes)

The message looks like PHP is hitting the 'memory_limit = 8M'.

Ah…that sheds light on things. Since posting here I have upgraded about two hundred and fifty Debian packages to bring the OS into sync with 'Etch,' and a lot of PHP packages were upgraded.

I notice now that a fairly constant stream of php-related entries in apache's error log has dried up. True confessions: I never bothered to resolve them because my principal php application, squirrelmail, did not present any deviant behaviour.

Apache's error log is quiet now. Squirrelmail seems to run ok. Hopefully things will continue on this present course, alleviating the need for small furry animal sacrifice.

Don't kill any squirrels!

Just set memory_limit = 16M
in php.ini. You have twice as much memory after the upgrade - let PHP live a little.

@pclissold:

Don't kill any squirrels!

Oh…ok. Party pooper.

> Just set````

memory_limit = 16M
````
in php.ini. You have twice as much memory after the upgrade - let PHP live a little.

Done. Thanks much.

While I believe Squirrelmail respects the PHP memory limit setting, anyone running across this thread should know that there are occasional apps that don't. I spent a few hours beating my head against PhpMyAdmin until I found that it has some config files that override the memory and timeout settings, so I had to change those too……