Title: Excessive PHP memory usage?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Excessive PHP memory usage?

 *  [jaspn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaspn/)
 * (@jaspn)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-php-memory-usage/)
 * Hello,
 * This is just a quick query to see if 128mb of PHP memory is on the excessive 
   side of normal?
 * **A little more info;** The issue I had was when uploading images, WP would try
   and process the image but would eventually hang (unresponsive white screen or
   get stuck on ‘Crunching’) or spit out a generic error. Upon investigation, my
   hosts default PHP memory limit was 32m. Upping this to 80m using a php.ini file,
   everything worked fine for a while, until I tried uploading an image 4mb in size.
   Same problem. I have since increased the limit to 128m, and my 4mb image uploads
   just fine now. Considering the default limit of my host was 32m, I’ve had to 
   increase this by a factor of **four** to ensure normal, smooth operation. I am
   using WordPress 3.5.

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 *  [Pothi Kalimuthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pothi/)
 * (@pothi)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-php-memory-usage/#post-3398556)
 * It depends on the memory usage by other components / plugins . If you are on 
   a shared host, the memory is still shared with others too. In general, 128 MB
   of PHP memory is normal in a production environment, even though WordPress would
   probably never need that much memory, especially for uploading images.

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## Tags

 * [php memory limit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-memory-limit/)
 * [php.ini](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-ini/)
 * [uploading images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uploading-images/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Pothi Kalimuthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pothi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excessive-php-memory-usage/#post-3398556)
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