Title: Constant fatal errors and memory issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Constant fatal errors and memory issues

 *  [tednopple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tednopple/)
 * (@tednopple)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constant-fatal-errors-and-memory-issues/)
 * I have the very latest Worpress installed on a shared hosting site that gives
   128M of php memory and I’ve increased the limit accordingly in the phprc and 
   wp-config files.
 * I don’t know much about computer science or programming, so I am wondering:
 * How large is 128M? Is it typical for a new site using wordpress, with very little
   traffic or users, to use this much? I read that 128 is “more than enough” for
   a small WordPress site. I do have over 20 plugins installed, but I went through
   each one one by one to test and most of them only add about 1M of ram. The highest
   ones add 7 and 10.
 * Is this really a plugin/usage problem or is something else causing it? Is upgrading
   to a higher hosting package or VPS really the best solution?
 * PS. I’ve also gone through almost all the plugins disabling and enabliging some,
   but I get “Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 76546048) (tried to allocate
   30720 bytes) in /home/…” messages all the time, with “…” being different each
   time.

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 *  [tomwrn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomwrn/)
 * (@tomwrn)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constant-fatal-errors-and-memory-issues/#post-4826371)
 * Hi guys,
 * I had the same fatal memory error you do, i found a possible solution.
 * As others have noted, removing plugins helps but doesn’t fix the problem. That’s
   because the problem is something else.
 * In my case (and someone else I saw online) the problem was caused by an entry
   in the theme settings. One of the text entries was getting a whole bunch of //////’
   s added to the text entry every time the page was saved. When I got the memory
   error, the entry had gone from “This is where my studio is” to “This is////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   where my studio is” but with about a thousand slashes!
 * I suggest that anyone having the memory problem look through their text entries
   in theme settings for a similar problem. Not sure what causes it but sure glad
   to know how to fix it.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/constant-fatal-errors-and-memory-issues/#post-4826371)
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