Title: Fatal error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fatal error

 *  [Michetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michetti/)
 * (@michetti)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-158/)
 * Hello everybody,
 * When sometimes manipulating various things in the WP dashboard and clicking for
   example update/save whatever I was modifying, i get the following error which
   is quite worrying:
 * “Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   301681 bytes) in /home3/afinidac/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 478”
 * Is there anything I could do? Has it got something to do with my hosting server…
   if-so what are the steps I should take to solve this issue?
 * Thank you for any advice/solutions!

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-158/#post-1382738)
 * add this line to your `wp-config.php`
 * `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');`
 *  Thread Starter [Michetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michetti/)
 * (@michetti)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-158/#post-1382743)
 * thanks for the quick answer, going to try it right away… inserted it in wp-config.
   php… ill let you know!
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [Michetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michetti/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-158/#post-1382743)
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