Title: Fatal Errors. Correlation between RAM and Plugins?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fatal Errors. Correlation between RAM and Plugins?

 *  [keithtay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithtay/)
 * (@keithtay)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/)
 * Hi guys, I’m quite new to the WordPress blogging scene. I recently had a blog
   hosted on a shared Linux server, and after upgrading to WordPress 3.0 and having
   installed and activated 7 plug-ins, I’m encountering this problem more and more
   often:
 *     ```
       Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/mysite/public_html/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php on line 14440
       ```
   
 * I wish to know, is it because I have maxed out my share of the server’s RAM?
 * Thank you in advance, guys. 🙂

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 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-473288)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/#post-1590999)
 * Please be so kind as to do a search before posting. 🙂
 * Thank you in advance.
 *  Thread Starter [keithtay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithtay/)
 * (@keithtay)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/#post-1591001)
 * I did some in-depth searching and just found the answers. I was skimming on the
   surface before posting this.
 * Sorry. 🙂
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-473288)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/#post-1591010)
 * Good job. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [keithtay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keithtay/)
 * (@keithtay)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/#post-1591017)
 * Alright, I’ve contacted my host and the amount of memory allocated to me is 32Mb.
 * And from the data I’ve collected from the NextGen Gallery:
    # Memory usage : 
   27.81 MByte # PHP Memory Limit : 32M # PHP Max Upload Size : 10M # PHP Max Post
   Size : 8M
 * Is there anyway for me to change without upgrading my hosting package? I’ve tried
   changing my wp-config or my wp-settings or even the htaccess file without any
   success.
 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-473288)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-errors-correlation-between-ram-and-plugins/#post-1591134)
 * Providing all plugins that you are using are running correctly and efficiently,
   and short of rewriting plugins to use less memory,
 * You can try running something like WP Super Cache or Hyper Cache.
    This should
   bring down the load. It might still be tight on the backend, it is hard to tell
   off the bat.
 * You could look at other ways to do the same thing. For example do you need the
   NetGen Gallery to do what your doing? If for example you are just uploading 4
   images, it might be overkill to use a plugin for this.
    And this could go for
   more plugins as well.
 * Depending on your setup, the amount of visitors, and the type of content you 
   run on your site, it might be a good idea to talk to your webhost/ or look at
   others to upgrade your package.
 * It is difficult to tell from a distance, but I hope this points you in the right
   direction.

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